Feature request: persistent local collection

[trusktr]

There doesn’t seem to be any Meteor APIs to work with local storage. Yes we can use local storage manually, but that wouldn’t be reactive (f.e. in Tracker.autorun) out of the box.

So I opened a feature request for “persistent local collections”:

persistent local collection · meteor/meteor · Discussion #13647

[paulishca]

New package - jam:offline - An easy way to give your Meteor app offline capabilities

Minimongo data is persisted to IndexedDB which means it will work for any app that can use IndexedDB. For mobile, this means if you’re using Cordova (which uses a web view) or it’s a PWA, it will persist the data as expected when the user closes the app. When they come back, it will first load the persisted data and then perform the server sync if needed. For those interested in creating PWAs with Meteor, I published a starter kit here: