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To see all this in action, let's get right on it by creating our first collection.
We create a file called collections.js
inside our my-meteor-blog
folder. We need to create it in the root folder so that it will be available on both the client and the server. Now let's add the following line of code to the collections.js
file:
Posts = new Mongo.Collection('posts');
This will make the Posts
variable globally available, as we haven't used the var
keyword, which would restrict it to the scope of this file.
Mongo.Collection
is the API used to query the database and it comes with the following basic methods:
insert
: This method is used to insert documents into the database
update
: This
method is used to update documents or parts of them
upsert
: This method is used to insert or update documents or parts of them
remove
: This method is used to delete documents from the database
find
: This method is used to query the database for documents
findOne
: This method is used to return only...
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