Upload Data to Meteor / Mongo DB

Question

I have a Meteor app and would like to upload data (from csv) to a meteor collection.

I have found:

• solutions (e.g. Collectionfs) which deal with file uploa

Answer 1

ChristianF's answer is spot on and I have accepted it as the correct answer. However, it provides even more than I need at this stage, so I am including here the code I have actually used - which is largely taken from Christian's answer and other elements I have found as a result:

HTML UPLOAD BUTTON (I am not including drag and drop at this stage)

JAVASCRIPT

Template.upload.events({
  "change #files": function (e) {
    var files = e.target.files || e.dataTransfer.files;
    for (var i = 0, file; file = files[i]; i++) {
      if (file.type.indexOf("text") == 0) {
        var reader = new FileReader();
        reader.onloadend = function (e) {
          var text = e.target.result;
          console.log(text)
          var all = $.csv.toObjects(text);
          console.log(all)
          _.each(all, function (entry) {
            Members.insert(entry);
          });
        }
        reader.readAsText(file);
      }
    }
  }
})

NB there is a jquery-csv library for Meteor here: https://github.com/donskifarrell/meteor-jquery-csv