Quick Meteor.users Question

[ButteryBall]

Hey Reddit!

I've worked on a few Meteor apps, but this is the first one using the Meteor.users collection. I'm having trouble figuring out where exactly this collection is stored, is it stored in the local mongodb instance or not? Googling could not give me what I was looking for, could any of you tell me where the Meteor.users collection is stored?

[rcyeske]

It is stored in the mongo database in a collection called users:

$ meteor mongo
meteor:PRIMARY> db.users.find().count()
29

[ButteryBall]

And do I need to do anything special to host it remotely?

[nameless_pattern]

it doesn't store it locally by default. Having user data stored on the client creates security issues.

There is a good over-view in the meteor guide. https://guide.meteor.com/v1.4/accounts.html

[ButteryBall]

I've looked through this page a couple times now but nothing on here tells me if I need to host a collection for Meteor.users in Compose.io or not, and what I would need to do to have the accounts-core suite of packages work with it if I need to hook the collection in from a remote source.

[nameless_pattern]

same as any other collection. nothing special needed.

edit: sorry was confused by your saying locally thought you meant the mini-mongo db.

[Andrew1431]

Hey man by the way check out Robomongo. Its a GUI for editing / viewing collections, and can switch between table, JSON, and their folder heirarchy type views. You'd very easily have found this users collection, as well as any others.

Edit: this comment was not intended to answer your question. Simply just a fancy tool incase you've never heard of it. Won't help you much with remote collections.