Insert/Update MiniMongo with methods rather than subscribe?

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Working on optimizing some areas of my app with methods rather than pub/sub, and I’m hoping to minimize the required changes as much as possible because our app is quite large.

I know I’ll have to code in where to do the updates through methods and so on. My main problem is knowing how to actually insert/update in to MiniMongo itself on the client side, once I’ve received the data from the server.

I wasn’t able to find anything referenced in the documentation about how to insert/update in to MiniMongo outside of subscribing. Anyone have any links or advice to instruct how to do this?

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I haven’t used this, yet but seems like this is what you need

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The least complicated way to do this would be to fetch in a method and render, then when you update the data just fetch again. I know you’re app is large and you have reservations about large changes, but switching to cultofcoders:grapher is a really nice way to achieve your end goal, with the ability to switch between pub/sub and methods quite easily.

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I attempted to use pub-sub-lite, but it seems to not be compatible with kurounin:pagination. It just freezes if both of them are loaded.

I had posted an issue on github for both projects, and no response. Not sure how to repair the conflict between the two.

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Grapher functionality does seem pretty nice, but without yet wrapping my head around it, it seems mostly based around queries. How would that switch between pub/sub and methods?

Is there no way to have a method update MiniMongo? As that would be easiest for this current project, as the interface is already configured around MiniMongo.

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With grapher yes, you use grapher queries. They use either methods or pub/sub under the hood depending on whether they are reactive or non reactive queries. Switching is a matter of calling the fetchSync() method of the query rather than it’s fetch() method.

As far as having a method update minimongo… I think the easiest course here, if you found it necessary to store the docs in minimong, would be to create a client side, unmanaged collection that you could insert the documents into.

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You can work with minimongo without using subscription.
You can define local collection:

const MyLocalCol = new Mongo.Collection('my_local_col', { connection: null });

Then you can work with that collection as normal: find, fineOne, insert, upsert…

The data will be there until you refresh browser so you may want to remove them manually.

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