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Building Full Stack Applications Using Meteor.js

Coding the Display Books Functionality

Understand how to publish book data on the server, subscribe to it on the client, and use React's useTracker to display books with details like cover images and authors, enabling dynamic data rendering in a Meteor.js app.

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Getting data from a MeteorJS application, as we’ve seen throughout this series, involves three steps. The steps involved are:

  • Data publication from the server.
  • Subscription to the data from the client.
  • Pulling the data into the React component using the useTracker function that’s imported from the meteor/react-meteor-data package.

Publishing book data

This functionality involves displaying books stored in the database at the frontend. Open the file located at imports/api/books/server/publication.js. Remember that data publication in Meteor takes place on the server.

On line 2, the BookCollection is ...