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October 20, 2012 22:12
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pretty clean way of obtaining reactive item counts in meteor
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| Meteor.autosubscribe -> | |
| Meteor.call 'getItemCount', Session.get('currentCustomer'), (err, count)-> | |
| Session.set 'itemCount', count |
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| Template.foo.itemCount = -> | |
| Session.get 'itemCount' |
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| Meteor.methods | |
| getItemCount: (customer)-> | |
| return Items.find(customer: customer).count() |
This is not real time?
Just tried, but not work :(
Side Note: Meteor.autosubscribe has been depreciated and replaced by Deps.autorun()
http://docs.meteor.com/#deps_autorun
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As I explained in this answer on StackOverflow, you shouldn't use the pub-sub mechanism for counting on large datasets (thousands of docs). This new solution is amazingly fast and doesn't load any unneccessary document from the mongoDB.