Admin panel and retrieving collections dynamically

hi, newbie here.

i have been trying to create my own admin panel and one of the things i’m trying to figure out is how to retrieve collections from the client dynamically. i’ve tried googling, searching the forums, but nothing really that’s helping.

as an aside, i tried looking at the client side Mongo.Collection and noticed that the name of the collections are found there for some, but not all of the collections I declared.

so is there any best practice or better way of achieving this? i’m really trying not to embed the collections in the code as the they evolve over time.

thanks again for anyone’s input

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