Auto increment collection property

[elchape]

Hi, I’d like to know if there is a way to do what the mongo-counter atmosphere library used to do before Meteor 1.3.

Thanks

[robfallows]

Maybe something like this?

Automatically increment order numbers

This is what I've done: Every collection needing an "autoincrement" gets an extra document added: {_id: "autoincrement", value: 0}. I usually put the insert(s) in the server-side Meteor.startup(): Meteor.startup(function() { try { MyCollection.insert({_id: 'autoincrement', value: 0}); } catch(err) { // Will always get here once the doc's in place, so just ignore } try { AnotherCollection.insert({_id: 'autoincrement', value: 0}); } catch(err) { // Will always get her…

[elchape]

I’ll try it out and let you know. Thanks a lot!

[elchape]

Worked like a charm. But I still have some doubts.
Is this the best/cleanest way to do this?

[robfallows]

@elchape

Is this the best/cleanest way to do this?

Well, the code may not be the best/cleanest , but the method follows MongoDB recommendations.