How to track the number of anonymous users server-side in Meteor?

Question

I\'m writing a data-sensitive application in Meteor, and am trying to limit the client access to as much information as possible. Therefore, I want to implement server side a wa

Answer 1

For the sake of completeness, it's probably best to combine the two answers above. In other words, do the following:

• Keep the online status in Meteor.users, as opposed to a separate collection, as in https://github.com/erundook/meteor-profile-online
• Keep track of disconnections via callback, instead of a heartbeat, as in https://github.com/murilopolese/howmanypeoplearelooking

This would probably be the canonical way to implement this in Meteor. I've created this as a smart package that you can install with Meteorite: https://github.com/mizzao/meteor-user-status