What's the best way to attach behavior to a Meteor Collection?

Question

In Meteor, when you retrieve a record from a database, it\'s only a record. So if I have a collection called Dogs, a dog might have fur: \'br

Answer 1

While there might be an official model system in the works there are some things you can do now:

There is one by Mario Uhler which is activerecord like and quite nice, in coffeescript: https://coderwall.com/p/_q9b1w

There is also a community package made by Tom Coleman thats very helpful with models: https://github.com/tmeasday/meteor-models, you might need meteorite to add it as a package.

And of course as you suggested Backbone. I personally use js prototypes but not everyone may be comfy with them, I just used them so its easy to transition when meteor's model system is out, its also easy to share between the client and server without too many packages to add.