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Building Single-page Web Apps with Meteor

By : Fabian Vogelsteller
Book Image

Building Single-page Web Apps with Meteor

By: Fabian Vogelsteller

Overview of this book

If you are a web developer with basic knowledge of JavaScript and want to take on Web 2.0, build real-time applications, or simply want to write a complete application using only JavaScript and HTML/CSS, this is the book for you. This book is based on Meteor 1.0.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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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...