Mongodb query/data filtering

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Hello,

I have a mongodb collection with following data:

    1. Unique ID:
  • “4A3wWEWuLFhpWNxuq”
    1. Location A:
  • “New York”
    1. Location B:
  • “London”
  • . 4 Car:
  • . “593LFV”
  • . 5. createdAt:
  • Mon Feb 13 2017 22:20:31 GMT+0200 (FLE Standard Time)
  • 6 date
  • “13.02.2017”
  • 7 dist:
  • “8”
  • 8 userId:
  • “tH8TriecENs4PMF8E”

So, I’m using the user ID to filter the content to user that is subscribed, however, how do I for example filter the data.
Let’s say I have 3 trips, 2 of them are in February (date XX.02.XXXX), how do I achieve that?
Also if anyone knows, some good meteor beginner level tutorials, I have coded in C# and JAVA, but never tried making a web application. (Yes, I know, there’s ASP.NET, but no… Meteor seems the best for me).

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It’s not usually recommended to store dates as strings. However, if you want to do that and make your life easier for filtering/sorting etc, I suggest using ISO8601: it’s a standard and is less ambiguous than “dd.mm.yyyy”. This allows date representations such as “2017-02-13” and “20170213”, both of which are naturally ordered using left-to-right string comparisons.

Your filter for February could then look something like:

MyCollection.find({ date: { $and: [ { $gte: '2017-02' }, { $lt: '2017-03' } ] } });

That’s equivalent to: date >= '2017-02' && date < '2017-03'

One other thing you should do is to add an index to date, or performance can take a big hit on large collections.

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Thank you very much. I’ve changed it to have years, months and days separately, not as one string.

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