How do you store data server side that is specific to a client in Meteor?

Question

Express implements a server side session object that lets you store data specific to a client. How would you do the equivalent in Meteor?

strack recommended using a coll

Answer 1

The user-session smart package I wrote for Meteor is designed exactly for this. It provides all the methods of the Meteor Session API (with the exception of setDefault), and some additional ones as well. It's reactive, and all the changes are persistent. Best of all, it's available both on the client, and on the server with an additional userId argument.