Reactivity in Meteor

Let’s learn about reactivity in MeteorJS.

Reactivity

Reactivity refers to something happening as a consequence of an action. Meteor achieves reactivity with the help of an internal package called Tracker, which is used to create and handle the dependencies of a data source.

A data source is termed reactive when an action or a function depends on it—for example, when a client subscribes to a publication from the server. A cursor is returned from the server that’s used by the client to query that data. This cursor is ...