I am from AngularJS background, recently start learning Meteor.
In AngularJS, I may have something like:
<div ng-repeat="person in persons | filter:search">
<h4>{{person.name}}</h4>
<b>{{person.age}}</b>
</div>
search
object can be bound (2-way bound) to HTML textbox. Whenever the textbox changed, the filter will be automatically updated.
How to do so in Meteor?
I am not familiar with AngularJS, but here is an example of how you would accomplish this with Meteor.
This example shows a list of persons, along with an HTML number input that you can use to filter by age the displayed list.
client/views/persons/persons.html
<template name="persons">
<input class="age" type="number" value="{{filter}}">
<ul>
{{#each personsFiltered}}
{{> person}}
{{/each}}
</ul>
</template>
<template name="person">
<li>{{name}} is {{age}}</li>
</template>
client/views/persons/persons.js
// dummy collection for testing purpose, living only in the client
// (not backed by a real server-side persistent collection)
Persons=new Mongo.Collection(null);
// dummy dataset
Persons.insert({
name:"Alice",
age:25
});
Persons.insert({
name:"Bob",
age:35
});
Persons.insert({
name:"Charlie",
age:18
});
// on create, initialize our filter as a ReactiveVar
// need to meteor add reactive-var to use this
Template.persons.created=function(){
this.filter=new ReactiveVar(20);
};
Template.persons.helpers({
// value of the filter to initialize the HTML input
filter:function(){
return Template.instance().filter.get();
},
// reactively return the persons who are older than the input value
personsFiltered:function(){
return Persons.find({
age:{
$gt:Template.instance().filter.get()
}
});
}
});
// bind the value of the input to the underlying filter
Template.persons.events({
"input .age":function(event,template){
var currentValue=template.find(".age").valueAsNumber;
template.filter.set(currentValue);
}
});