ES6 + global collection variables

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When writing a pure ES6-Meteor app it can be hard to not have access to your collection variables in the global namespace when debugging on the client.

For example when you do:

import { Mongo } from 'meteor/mongo';

const Streams = new Mongo.Collection('streams');

export default Streams;

There is no way to do console.log(Streams.find().fetch()) in your browser console.

I made a simple NPM-module to fix this: https://github.com/TimBroddin/export-client

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I use the following technique

Meteor.default_connection._mongo_livedata_collections.users.find({}).fetch()

Just replace users with whatever collection you have.

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That’s quite some typing, and there will be moment (2.0?) that Meteor won’t be available in the global namespace. But glad to know there is a way to access it :slight_smile: