I'm trying to implement a router with BackboneJS in my MeteorJS app. When you call the url 'localhost:3000/1' my router stores the id '1' in the session. After that I want to take the id from the session and use it in my query to select an object from my collection. But whenever I try to use a session attribute in my query it fails. So I want to know if there is a better way for routing with MeteorJS and why my query fails.
test.js
Meteor.subscribe("test");
Test = new Meteor.Collection("test");
Session.set("id", null);
Template.hello.test = function () {
var avg = 0, total = 0, cursor = Test.find(), count = cursor.count();
cursor.forEach(function(e)
{
total += e.number;
});
avg = total / count;
var session_id = Session.get("id");
var test = Test.findOne({id: session_id}); //doesn't work
if (test) {
test.avg = avg;
}
return test;
}
//ROUTER
var TestRouter = Backbone.Router.extend({
routes: {
":get_id": "get_id"
},
get_id: function (get_id) {
Session.set("id", get_id);
console.log(get_id);
}
});
Router = new TestRouter;
Meteor.startup(function () {
Backbone.history.start({pushState: true});
});
test.html
<head>
<title>test</title>
</head>
<body>
{{> hello}}
</body>
<template name="hello">
<h1>Hello World!</h1>
{{#if test}}
{{#with test}}
ID: {{id}} Name: {{name}} AVG: {{avg}}
{{/with}}
{{/if}}
</template>
model.js
Test = new Meteor.Collection("test");
Test.remove({});
if (Test.find().count() < 1)
{
Test.insert({id: 1,
name: "test1",
number: 13});
Test.insert({id: 2,
name: "test2",
number: 75});
}
Meteor.publish('test', function () {
return Test.find();
});
You might find iron router of interest - it's meteor specific and "knows about your subscriptions, data sources and helps you take care of common problems": https://github.com/EventedMind/iron-router
I debug the code and find out that 'id' in collection is an integer, while session_id is a string. You need parseInt to convert session_id.
I use page.js for routing, which is "Micro client-side router inspired by the Express router", an excellent work from "TJ Holowaychuk".
I strongly suggest it, since Meteor and backbone have some feature collisions in Model/Collection & View/Template.
Jifeng was right in the sense of if you only need routing capability then page.js is good enough.
Jifeng and I are in a same team. We had the conclusion of "Meteor and Backbone have some feature collisions in Model/Collection & View/Template" until recently. As our understanding on both Meteor and Backbone go deeper, that conclusion is in need of re-evaluation. Please refer to my last experiment code as BBCloneMail-on-Meteor: Derick Bailey's BBCloneMail modified to run on Meteor. The key is to implement a Backbone storage plugin to wire in Meteor's collection. Once the plugin wiring is in effect, there is only a little modification needed.