How to modify meteor users collection name?

Question

I want to use the my collection users
When i users = new Mongo.Collection('users');
Then error : here is already a collection named "users"
What should I do？

Answer 1

Actually you already have a collection name 'users' if you see your mongodb collections.

when you install package 'accounts-base' in your project it will create a collection with 'users' name automatically.

so you can not create a new collection with same name. if you want to use 'users' collection data then simply use Meteor.userId() and Meteor.user() . Use console.log(Meteor.user()) to see data.

Answer 2

If you really want a second users collection then do:

Users = new Mongo.Collection('myusers');

or

Users = new Mongo.Collection('users2');

But this is really not recommended if you're using the accounts package because of the potential confusion, especially if someone else ends up working on your project.

There's also a de facto Meteor convention that collection variables are defined with an initial uppercase letter but are all lower case in mongo as above.