I have the following template helper for outputting the first {{url}} and all the {{thumb}} however I want to skip the first item if the {{thumb}} not sure how to do this in the map function.
Template.motionPictures.helpers({
posts: function() {
return Posts.find({}, {fields: {thumb: 1, url: 1}}).map(function(post, index) {
if (index === 0) {
return post;
} else {
delete post.url;
return post;
}
});
}
});
When I console.log the posts array, I get the following
This is what I expected but I want the first object in the array to only show its {{url}} not is {{thumb}} so far all the suggestions just delete the object in total, or not at all.
Ok so you both had good advice but I didn't realize what I had to do until I did that console .log.
The following code worked just as I wanted it to
Template.motionPictures.helpers({
posts: function() {
return Posts
.find({}, {fields: {thumb: 1, url: 1}, sort: {createdAt: -1}})
.map(function(post, index) {
if (index === 0) {
delete post.thumb;
return post;
} else {
delete post.url;
return post;
}
});
}
});