Keep database only on the server

1

I would like to keep a library of images only on the server. How do I deal with that?

2

Have you removed the autopublish package?

3

Data is only given to the client when you subscribe to a data set, or when you have autopublish enabled.

If you create a mongo collection and never publish data from it, for all intents and purposes, it is “server only”

4

If you want to use an in-memory only collection, you can: ServerImages = new Mongo.Collection()

5

I have difficulties understanding how Meteor handles data in the database. When does it actually save it on the client?

Yes, autopublish is removed.

6

When does it actually save it on the client?

Depends on what you mean. When you use publish/subscribe, the publish function defines the data set that will be given to the client. The client downloads this data set to local storage, more or less.

// this will give all users to the client
Meteor.publish('users', function () {
  return Meteor.users.find();
});
// this will only give a subset of the users collection to the client
// only users with the specified name.
Meteor.publish('usersByName', function (name) {
  check(name, String);
  return Meteor.users.find({
    'profile.name': name
  });
});
7

You can read the collections and data loading articles in the meteor guide for a lot of details!

8

This is the new official guide in case you haven’t seen it, there’s a lot of really helpful stuff in there: http://guide.meteor.com/collections.html

9

Thank you for the input.