Meteor: how to search for only distinct field values aka a collection.distinct(“fieldname”) similar to Mongo’s

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You can just use underscore.js, which comes with Meteor – should be fine for the suggested use case. You might run into performance problems if you try this on a vast data set or run it repeatedly, but it should be adequate for common-or-garden usage:

var distinctEntries = _.uniq(Collection.find({}, {
    sort: {myField: 1}, fields: {myField: true}
}).fetch().map(function(x) {
    return x.myField;
}), true);

That will return the distinct entries in myField for all documents in Collection. Apologies if the one-liner looks a bit unwieldy; the sort and fields options and the true flag are just to make it more efficient.

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