The `users` Collection in Meteor

Meteor’s users collection#

Installing the accounts-password package creates a collection in the database called users. This collection is responsible for saving user data. The schema of this collection depends on the accounts package we’re using. Meteor supports different login providers and accounts packages. Remember that the schema determines the shape of the collection. However, we can also use our own custom schema to validate the creation of a new user.

Here’s an example of the data saved when the accounts-password package is used. There’s a profile object in the users collection that we can add additional fields to. We saw an example in the code that creates a new user in a previous lesson and allowed us to add the address and phone number to the user profile object. We can also add extra data to the users collection by adding a top-level field instead of adding it to the profile object. This is done by updating the users collection like so:

Meteor.users.update(userId, { $set : { fieldToAdd : fieldValue } });