I see that this has been asked here before, but nothing since Meteor.http has been available. I\'m still grasping the concepts of Meteor and file uploads are totall
Meteor.http
Checkout how to accomplish this using Meteor.Method on the server and the FileReader's api on the client
https://gist.github.com/dariocravero/3922137
After several searches, this looks to me the easiest (and for the moment the meteor's style way) to handle a file upload with no extra dependencies.