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Meteor Cookbook

Meteor Cookbook

By : Isaac Strack
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Meteor Cookbook

Meteor Cookbook

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By: Isaac Strack

Overview of this book

This book is meant for developers of all experience levels looking to create mobile and full-stack web applications in JavaScript. Many of the simple recipes can easily be followed by less-experienced developers, while some of the advanced recipes will require extensive knowledge of existing web, mobile, and server technologies. Any application or enterprise web developer looking to create full-stack JavaScript-based apps will benefit from the recipes and concepts covered in this book.
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Hiding data with façades


Some of our security (and performance) problems can be resolved through limiting access to certain fields and records in our data collections, for example, if the owner field of a record isn't sent to the client, a potential hacker will never be able to get the userId value of another user. Likewise, if only records belonging to a certain userId, or ones marked for sharing, are passed to the client, private records can stay private and visible only to the user that created them. This recipe will show you how to create a façade to limit fields and records being sent to the client.

Getting ready

Please complete the Securing data transactions with allow and deny recipe found in this chapter, including the additional deny callback functions found in the There's more… section. Once completed, and your Meteor app is running, you are ready to use this recipe.

How to do it...

We are going to modify the publish function on the server so that it only returns records that are...

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