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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

Calling the method


Now that we have created our insertPost method, we can change the code in the submit event, where we inserted the post earlier in our editPost.js file, with a call to our method:

var slug = _.slugify(form.title.value);

Meteor.call('insertPost', {
  title:          form.title.value
  slug:           slug,
  description:    form.description.value
  text:           form.text.value,

}, function(error, slug) {
  Session.set('saveButton', 'Save Post');

  if(error) {
    return alert(error.reason);
  }

  // Here we use the (probably changed) slug from the server side method
  Router.go('Post', {slug: slug});
});

As we can see in the callback of the method call, we route to the newly created post using the slug variable we received as the second argument in the callback. This ensures that if the slug variable is modified on the server side, we use the modified version to route to the post. Additionally, we reset the saveButton session variable to change the text to Save Post...