easy-search-leaderboard | meteorjs examples enhanced with the easy-search package | Runtime Evironment library

I got it working in my React / Redux / Meteor app. Things to note:

1. The cursor MyIndex.search(searchTerm) is a reactive data source - you can't just use it as a return value. When searching on the client with MiniMongo this isn't an issue, but it's important when you use MongoDBEngine to search on the server, because it's asynchronous. In React you can wrap the cursor in withTracker to pass data to the component reactively. In Blaze you would use autorun.tracker. This is shown in the docs but not explained, and it took me a while to understand what was happening.

2. The docs have an error in the selector example, easily corrected but it's confusing if you have other problems in your code.

3. With MongoDBEngine, 'permission' must be specified - it does not default to 'true'. Without it, you will see no results.

4. Writing out the default selector object to the console let me see how it's constructed, and then create a new selector that returns MyDocs that are either public or created by the user.

My code is below. In case it helps anybody else, I've shown how to search on tags also, which are objects with a name property stored in a collection Tags. Each MyDoc has a 'tags' property which is an array of tag ids. The selector first searches the Tags collection to find tags whose name matches the search term, then selects docs in MyDocs with the ids of those tags in their doc.tags array.

There may be a better way to find the search term, or to structure the Tags search, but this is what I could get working.

On server and client: