creating a list using meteor

Question

Hi I am creating a money lend tracking website using meteor. It is my first attempt to learn meteor js. I tried writing the following piece of code in my js file

var lists = new Meteor.Collection("Lists");

But when I go back in Chrome developer console after refreshing page and type

lists
ReferenceError: lists is not defined
get stack: function () { [native code] }
message: "lists is not defined"
set stack: function () { [native code] }
__proto__: Error

Is there something i am missing ? Could any one help me.

Answer 1

You can't access lists from your web console because code is scoped with each file. In meteor your code would be run as

function() {
    var lists = new Meteor.Collection("Lists");
    ....
}

So to access your collection in the console you need to globally scope it by changing your line to:

lists = new Meteor.Collection("Lists");

So that lists can be used anywhere such as other files and the webkit console