Consider adding an additional example collection to demonstrate relationships

[cleverbeagle]

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[jesperordrup]

Great idea :=)

[cleverbeagle]

@pilarArr ☝️ guy who suggested this. May be good to chat back and forth to get a clear idea on how to implement this.

[jesperordrup]

The usecase could be adding Comments to Documents. That would be something anyone should be able to relate to.

When viewing a document a signed in user can add a comment. The comment is added to the Comments Collection.
A comment contains a documentId, message, userId and a timestamp.
Viewing the document also renders out the list of comments. Each comment also shows the users name and links to profile.

Considerations
It could be kicked of with some thoughts about the following:

• Optimizing for reading or writing.
• Performance
• Limitations
• Pointers to other approaches

[cleverbeagle]

Really like how this sounds. We could spiff up the UI around it quite a bit, too.

[pilarArr]

Sorry for being late to the thread!
I don't know much about optimising or performance, but the only limitations that come to my mind right now would be:

• should the comment need approval? or do we take the we are all consenting adults premise?
• How many comments do we load at the same time? Do we page them or load a scrolling list?

[jesperordrup]

To keep it simple and focust on handling a relationship I would suggest to

• Leave out approval, just post
• Only logged in users can comment
• Load all

[pilarArr]

@jesperordrup I'll work on a first approach with this, I'll keep you posted. 😄
@cleverbeagle I'm not sure about this, but can users see the documents of another user with the link?
And about the design for the component, did you have something in mind?

[cleverbeagle]

@pilarArr not at the moment. Documents are only visible to the user marked as the owner field. This may require us to add some sort of shared field to the Documents collection where we store userId's that are allowed to see docs. A little more work but would be neat to have an example of as the technique applies to a lot of use cases.

Re: design, I can come up with something. How do you do with CSS if I give you a mock up?

[pilarArr]

I can give it a try, I can do basic CSS, things like layouts, spacing, colors and the like. Maybe transitions or animations are a bit out of my reach.

[cleverbeagle]

Okay. I've made a note to sketch something out next week, I'll follow up :)

[cleverbeagle]

@pilarArr a design concept for this. Keeping it simple here. No nested replies or anything, just an ascending list of comments followed by an input for submitting a comment.

Think this is doable?

May tweak the colors before we ship it, but this should get us started.