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Hello there,
i’m new to both, mongo and meteor/node.js, so sry for this kind of stupid question - i’m trying to create a small blog for practice.
I already googled around bu found different solutions and wonder which one is the way to go.

I want to create categories(_id,…) and posts which belong to these categories.

  1. So the SQL way to do it would be posts(_id, category_id,…)
    ^^ i could find this kind of implementation in some meteor tutorials like here: http://meteortips.com/second-meteor-tutorial/methods-part-2/
  2. But it seems like a lot of people instead use sth. like categories(_id,…,collection(posts))
    So which is the better way to go?

I tried to implement the first one but am struggeling with a rather simple task i think: getting the current categories id.

What i did is:

  1. showing a list with all categories

  2. following the route

    Router.route(’/categories/:_id’, {
    name: ‘app_view’,
    template: ‘app_view’,
    data: function(){
    var currentCategory = this.params._id;
    return Categories.findOne({ _id: currentCategory });
    }
    });
    \3. Displaying a form for posts

{{> quickForm collection=“Posts” id=“insertPostForm” type=“insert”}}

using the following schema:

Schemas.Posts = new SimpleSchema({
    ...,
    category_id: {
        type: String,
        autoValue: function(){
            //return this._id;
        },
        autoform: { type: "hidden", label: false }
    }
});

How do i get the currently selected category _id here?

Regards,
thx for any help,
lukas