<h2>Overview</h2>
<p>GroundDB is a fast and thin layer providing Meteor offline database functionality. It offers caching-only storage, supporting local storage options such as localstorage, indexeddb, websql, and SQLite on Cordova. GroundDB uses localforage with minor modifications, aiming to integrate localForage via npm in the future. GroundDB facilitates data transfer between a Meteor Mongo Collection and a client-side offline collection.</p>
<h2>Features</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Caching-Only Storage</strong>: GroundDB does not support resuming of method calls or cross-tab updates but offers faster and asynchronous operations.</li>
<li><strong>Local Storage Support</strong>: Supports various local storage options like localstorage, indexeddb, websql, and SQLite on Cordova.</li>
<li><strong>Offline Collection</strong>: Provides a client-side offline collection, dependent on LocalCollection and enables data transfer with a Meteor Mongo Collection via DDP.</li>
</ul>


<h2>Overview</h2>
<p>The meteor-autocomplete package is a client/server autocompletion tool designed for Meteor's collections and reactivity. It allows for auto-completing text inputs or textareas from various local or remote Meteor collections when triggered by specific symbols. This package enables dynamic, full-fledged autocomplete functionalities using Meteor's client-side data availability.</p>
<h2>Features</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Multiple collection matching with different trigger tokens and fields</strong></li>
<li><strong>Fully live and reactive Meteor template rendering of drop-down list items</strong></li>
<li><strong>Drop-down positioning above or below the text</strong></li>
<li><strong>Mouse or keyboard interaction with autocomplete menu</strong></li>
<li><strong>Simple token-less autocompletion in an &#x3C;input> element, similar to Bootstrap typeahead</strong></li>
</ul>
<h2>Summary</h2>
<p>The meteor-autocomplete package provides a powerful solution for implementing autocompletion features in Meteor applications. With features like live and reactive template rendering, multiple collection matching, and easy integration with text inputs and textareas, this package enhances user experience and interactivity in Meteor projects.</p>


<h2>Overview:</h2>
<p>Meteor Collection Hooks is a package that extends Mongo.Collection with hooks for various database operations like insert, update, remove, find, and findOne. It works seamlessly across client, server, or a combination of both while respecting collection validators.</p>
<h2>Features:</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Before Hooks</strong>: Allows you to modify documents or run additional functionality before insert, update, remove, or upsert operations.</li>
<li><strong>After Hooks</strong>: Enables running post-insert or post-update tasks such as sending notifications or taking further actions based on previous and new documents.</li>
<li><strong>Transform Method</strong>: Provides a way to obtain the transformed version of documents if a transform was defined.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Summary:</h2>
<p>Meteor Collection Hooks is a useful package for adding before and after hooks to MongoDB collections in Meteor applications. It allows for easy customization and additional functionality before and after database operations, ensuring system integrity and flexibility in handling data. The transform method further enhances the ability to work with the documents.</p>


<h2>Overview:</h2>
<p>Collection2 is a Meteor package that allows users to attach a schema to a Mongo.Collection. This schema is then automatically validated when inserting or updating data, ensuring data integrity and security. It requires the simpl-schema NPM package for defining the schema syntax and providing validation logic.</p>
<h2>Features:</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Schema Validation:</strong> Automatically validates data against the attached schema during insert and update operations.</li>
<li><strong>Reactive Validation Error Messages:</strong> Allows easy display of customizable error messages to the user without event handling.</li>
<li><strong>Automatic Validation:</strong> Provides automatic schema validation on both the client and the server for speed and security.</li>
<li><strong>AutoForm Integration:</strong> Works seamlessly with the aldeed:autoform package to create HTML5 forms based on the collection's schema.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Summary:</h2>
<p>Collection2 is a powerful tool for Meteor developers to ensure data integrity and security by attaching schemas to collections. With features like automatic validation, reactive error messages, and integration with aldeed:autoform for form creation, it offers a comprehensive solution for managing data in Meteor applications.</p>


<h2>Overview:</h2>
<p>Meteor Link Accounts is a project that aims to simplify the process of linking social network accounts. It is an active project that has reached a stable state and is continually developed. The package allows users to easily connect additional social network accounts without modifying core Meteor packages or requiring unnecessary additional packages.</p>
<h2>Features:</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Link Additional Social Network Accounts:</strong> Easily connect multiple social network accounts.</li>
<li><strong>Client and Server-side Integration:</strong> Supports linking accounts both on the client and server side.</li>
<li><strong>Hooks for Customization:</strong> Provides hooks for customization during the link process.</li>
<li><strong>Seamless User Experience:</strong> Saves linked service information in user.services for easy login from linked services.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Summary:</h2>
<p>Meteor Link Accounts is a convenient solution for managing linked social network accounts in Meteor projects. With features like easy installation, client and server-side capabilities, customization hooks, and seamless user experience, it provides a hassle-free way to link additional social network accounts without complicating the Meteor setup.</p>


<h2>Overview:</h2>
<p>The <code>meteor-publish-composite</code> package provides a flexible way to publish a set of related documents from various collections using a reactive join. This enables the easy publication of a tree of documents at once, with the published collections being reactive and updating when changes occur. The package offers flexibility in establishing parent-child relationships based on various criteria, making it ideal for scenarios like displaying related articles on a webpage.</p>
<h2>Features:</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Reactive Join:</strong> Publish a set of related documents from multiple collections.</li>
<li><strong>Flexible Relationship:</strong> Establish parent-child relationships based on custom criteria.</li>
<li><strong>Reactive Updates:</strong> Published collections update automatically in response to changes.</li>
<li><strong>Support for Arguments:</strong> PublishComposite function supports both argument-less and argument-based publications.</li>
<li><strong>Server-Side Function:</strong> The package exports a function to be used on the server for publishing purposes.</li>
<li><strong>Error Reporting:</strong> Includes instructions on reporting any issues found with the package.</li>
<li><strong>Asynchronous Functionality:</strong> Supports asynchronous functions for more dynamic publishing needs.</li>
</ul>


<h2>Overview:</h2>
<p>Meteor-roles v3 is an active project offering an authorization package for Meteor that is compatible with the built-in accounts package. Users can attach roles to a user and then verify those roles for access to Meteor methods or published data. The package simplifies the process with helper methods for managing roles.</p>
<h2>Features:</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Authorization Package</strong>: Allows users to attach roles to a user for access control.</li>
<li><strong>Flexibility in Role Definition</strong>: Users can define roles, scopes, or permissions in any way they prefer.</li>
<li><strong>Role Hierarchy</strong>: Roles can be arranged in a hierarchy with parent roles and subroles.</li>
<li><strong>Scopes for Independence</strong>: Users can have independent sets of roles called "scopes" for different communities or tenants.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Summary:</h2>
<p>Meteor-roles v3 is a useful authorization package for Meteor that simplifies the process of managing roles and access control. It offers flexibility in defining roles and scopes, along with a hierarchical structure for roles. By attaching roles to users and verifying them for access, developers can easily control permissions in their applications.</p>


<h2>Overview:</h2>
<p>SimpleSchema is a Meteor Community Package that validates JavaScript objects to ensure they match a specified schema. It offers functionalities such as cleaning objects, converting types, and adding automatic values for increased validation probability. This package is actively developed and maintained, with an emphasis on Meteor Compatibility.</p>
<h2>Features:</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Isomorphic</strong>: Works on both Server and Client.</li>
<li><strong>Support for MongoDB modifier validation</strong>: Ensures proper validation of MongoDB modifier objects.</li>
<li><strong>Optional Tracker reactivity</strong>: Allows for reactive updates using Meteor Tracker.</li>
<li><strong>Customizable error message system</strong>: Provides default English language error messages with localization support.</li>
<li><strong>Extensively tested</strong>: Includes hundreds of tests and is used in production apps, including Collection2 and AutoForm Meteor packages.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Summary:</h2>
<p>SimpleSchema is a robust package for validating JavaScript objects in Meteor projects. With features like cross-platform compatibility, MongoDB modifier support, and customizable error messages, it offers a comprehensive solution for ensuring data integrity. While the package may add complexity and slower performance compared to simpler alternatives, its versatility and reliability make it a compelling choice for projects where thorough validation is a priority.</p>


<h2>Overview:</h2>
<p>The aldeed:tabular Meteor package creates reactive DataTables efficiently, allowing users to display extensive collections without impacting app performance. The package is maintained by contributors committed to ensuring its continuous improvement.</p>
<h2>Features:</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Fast:</strong> Utilizes automatic data subscription to load table data only when needed.</li>
<li><strong>Reactive:</strong> Updates the table dynamically as collection data changes.</li>
<li><strong>Customizable:</strong> Supports all DataTables library features and allows users to create custom tables with their own publish functions.</li>
<li><strong>Hot Code Push Ready:</strong> Retains the current data page after a hot code push.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Summary:</h2>
<p>The aldeed:tabular package for Meteor provides a powerful solution for displaying large collections in DataTables efficiently and reactively. Its customizable features, hot code push compatibility, and ability to work with any DataTables theme make it a valuable tool for developers. Remember to refer to the installation guide for a seamless setup process.</p>


<h2>Overview:</h2>
<p>The meteor-timesync provides NTP-style time synchronization between server and client in Meteor applications, allowing for accurate timestamps to be used on the client. This package computes and maintains an offset between the server and client, providing facilities to use time reactively within the application. It includes functions for retrieving server time, server offset, round trip time, and syncing with the server.</p>
<h2>Features:</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Time Synchronization:</strong> Maintains an offset between server and client for accurate time management.</li>
<li><strong>Reactive Time Usage:</strong> Allows server timestamps to be used reactively in Meteor applications.</li>
<li><strong>Real-Time Updates:</strong> Continually updates the server time reactive variable with a default interval of 1 second.</li>
<li><strong>Diagnostic Control:</strong> Option to enable or disable diagnostic syncing messages on the client.</li>
<li><strong>Non-Reactive Context:</strong> Provides Deps.nonreactive for non-reactive time computations.</li>
</ul>


Meteor Community Packages

Ground Db

Meteor Autocomplete

Meteor Collection Hooks

Meteor Collection2

Meteor Link Accounts

Meteor Publish Composite

Meteor Roles

Meteor Simple Schema

Meteor Tabular

Meteor Timesync