How can I display a list of all LOGGED IN users with Meteor.js

Question

I have been trying for days to get a list of logged in users in a Meteor chat app. I tried many different things. I managed to add a login flag on the user profile object. Serve

Answer 1

To change the users profile.login property you need to do Meteor.users.update(..) or call a server method that does that. Just changing the user object's property will not work.

Generally I would recommend to not persist the users state into the mondodb database but hold it in a Collection in memory.

The easiest might be to just use one of these packages:

• https://github.com/dburles/meteor-presence/
• https://github.com/mizzao/meteor-user-status

or study their source code to see how to propagate the user status.