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Building Single-page Web Apps with Meteor

You're reading from   Building Single-page Web Apps with Meteor Build real-time single page apps at lightning speed using the most powerful full-stack JavaScript framework around

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783988129
Length 198 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Meteor 2. Building HTML Templates FREE CHAPTER 3. Storing Data and Handling Collections 4. Controlling the Data Flow 5. Making Our App Versatile with Routing 6. Keeping States with Sessions 7. Users and Permissions 8. Security with the Allow and Deny Rules 9. Advanced Reactivity 10. Deploying Our App 11. Building Our Own Package 12. Testing in Meteor A. Appendix Index

Publishing data


In order to access the post on the client again, we need to tell the server to publish it to subscribing clients.

To do so, we will create a file called publications.js inside the my-meteor-blog/server folder and add the following lines of code:

Meteor.publish('all-posts', function () {
  return Posts.find();
});

The Meteor.publish function will create a publication called all-posts and return a cursor with all the posts from the Post collection in that publication.

Now, we only have to tell the client to subscribe to this publication and we will see our posts again.

We create a file called subscriptions.js inside the my-meteor-blog/client folder with the following content:

Meteor.subscribe('all-posts');

Now, when we check out our website, we can see that our blog posts have reappeared.

This happens because the client will subscribe to the all-posts publication when the subsciptions.js file is executed, which happens right before the page is fully loaded, as Meteor adds the subsciptions...

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