meds

MongoDB full-text search for Meteor using meds, a fork of reds.

Example

$ git clone https://github.com/xdissent/meteor-meds.git
$ cd meds/example
$ mrt

Usage

Add a search option when creating a Meteor collection:

Posts = new Meteor.Collection('posts', {search: true});

Add documents to your collection and index them:

Posts.insert({_id: '1', title: 'frist!', content: 'I am teh winner'});
Posts.index('1');

Search!

var post = Posts.search('winner').findOne();
console.log(post.content); // "I am teh winner"

The search method also accepts limit, skip, sort and fields options:

var posts = Posts.search('winner', {
  limit: 3,
  skip: 1,
  sort: [['published', 'desc']],
  fields: {title: true, author: true, published: true}
}).fetch();

Publishing

To manually publish a cursor for search results on the server:

Meteor.publish('posts-search', function (query) {
  return Posts.search(query); // Adding a `limit` option is recommended.
});

Subscribe to the cursor on the client:

Deps.autorun(function () {
  Meteor.subscribe('posts-search', Session.get('query'));
});

Template.search.results = function () {
  return Posts.search(Session.get('query'));
};

Auto-indexing

Meds can monitor your collections and automatically index your documents when they are added/changed/removed. To enable auto-indexing, use the autoindex option:

Posts = new Meteor.Collection('posts', {search: true, autoindex: true});

Indexed Fields

By default, all document fields are indexed (except _id, which is never indexed). To change this behaviour, pass a valid mongo field specifier as the index option when creating a collection:

// Index only the `title` and `content` fields:
Posts = new Meteor.Collection('posts', {search: true, index: {title: true, content: true}});

// Index all fields except the `comments` field:
Posts = new Meteor.Collection('posts', {search: true, index: {comments: false}});