Let’s say I have some input fields:
<input id="var1" data-capture>
<input id="var2" data-capture>
Then in the event map:
Template.page.events({
'change input[data-capture]': function(event, template) {
// store values in...something
}
});
I know there’s probably a dozen ways to do this, but I want to store these as reactive variables. I suppose the easy/cheap way is to do Session.set(event.target.id, event.target.value)
. Is there a better way?
This comes to mind too (I like this better than using Session
):
Records = new Mongo.Collection(null);
...
Template.page.events({
'change input[data-capture]': function(event, template) {
Records.insert({
varName: event.target.id,
varValue: event.target.value
});
}
});
Steve
May 20, 2015, 9:43pm
3
It really depends on what you want to do with the stored variables. If they are to be used inside the template, you can do this:
Template.page.onCreated(function() {
this.var1 = new ReactiveVar();
});
Template.page.events({
'change input[data-capture]': function(event, template) {
var var1 = ...
template.var1.set(var1);
}
});
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var1 was just an example, definitely didn’t want to hardcode it. The client-side collection solution above is working well.