Total beginer needs help

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I started trying to learn Meteor a few weeks ago, everything was going great, then I hit a snag. I have been stuck on this step for so long and making no progress. All I want to be able to do is make a button that will display how many times a user pressed it, save that info in the db and display it next time they log in. I have looked all over and tried many different ways to do it, but none worked. If some one could plz point me to somewhere I can learn this, or lend any kind of guidance, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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Have you completed the tutorial?

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We have all of our new engineers go through this tutorial:
https://themeteorchef.com/tutorials/getting-started-with-meteor

It’s pretty solid!

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Break it down and then tackle each step at a time (I imagine you have already been trying it - maybe an explanation/summary of what you have tried that didn’t work would help us answer better).

Off the top of my mind:
1 - Create a Meteor method that gets called every time the button is clicked
2 - The method should update the db (either a separate collection or the Meteor.users collection) with the number of clicks (use the mongo operator $inc )
3 - Write a publication to ensure the client is getting the data from the collection above (new collection or Meteor.users - specifically the field that you are incrementing)
4 - Use withTracker to subscribe to the publication and pass the data to your React component (assuming you are using React)
5 - Display the count passed through to props from the withTracker on step 4

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Thanks but I still keep hitting a problem, when I get to step “5.4 Import Task component from the body”, it causes the body template to disappear. I have checked every step 6 times now, what am I overlooking?

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No idea. You need to share your code to get a good answer to that…

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Thanks but I still keep hitting a problem, when I get to step “5.4 Import Task component from the body”, it causes the body template to disappear. I have checked every step 6 times now, what am I overlooking? If I remove the tasks.html and task.js and just leave it on body.html and main.js, then everything works fine. The problem is with import ‘./tasks.js’. I have read others having this same problem but none of the fixes they used work for me. When I keep the tasks template in the body.html and the template helpers in body.js, then the ReactiveDict() wont work in the next step. Thanks again for any ideas or help

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Make a repo with the code so someone can take a look