Meteor.startup() script not working.

[Geni-96]

Description

I'm doing the meteor-blaze tutorial todo application from scratch and encountered the issue in 2 places.

1. In step 02, when we first add dummy tasks using the startup script. On first run it gave me the error "count" deprecated use countAsync instead. When I fixed the issue and there are no more errors, I couldn't see the manually added tasks on the UI. I moved on to step 3 where we add a form in the UI to add tasks this is where I saw the db actually created tasks collection in the database which it failed to do using startup script in previous step.
2. In step 07 where we use startup script to create seed username and password. This time again it failed to create those user credentials. I'm attaching pictures with console error message for reference.

[Crownedprinz]

Hi, I had the same issue.

I resolved it by adding await to findUserByUsername like this await Accounts.findUserByUsername(SEED_USERNAME);

I am attaching the server/main.js page

import { Meteor } from 'meteor/meteor';
import { Accounts } from 'meteor/accounts-base';
import { TasksCollection } from '../imports/db/TasksCollection';
import '/imports/api/tasksMethods';
import '/imports/api/tasksPublications';

const insertTask = (taskText, user) =>
  TasksCollection.insertAsync({
    text: taskText,
    userId: user._id,
    createdAt: new Date(),
  });

const SEED_USERNAME = 'meteorite';
const SEED_PASSWORD = 'password';

Meteor.startup(async () => {
  let user = await Accounts.findUserByUsername(SEED_USERNAME);
  if (!user) {
    Accounts.createUserAsync({
      username: SEED_USERNAME,
      password: SEED_PASSWORD,
    });
  }

  user = await Accounts.findUserByUsername(SEED_USERNAME);

  if(user){
    if (await TasksCollection.find().countAsync() === 0) {
      [
        'First Task',
        'Second Task',
        'Third Task',
        'Fourth Task',
        'Fifth Task',
        'Sixth Task',
        'Seventh Task',
      ].forEach(taskText => insertTask(taskText, user));
    }
  }
});

[StorytellerCZ]

You want to report this in this repository: https://github.com/meteor/blaze-tutorial

[StorytellerCZ]

@Crownedprinz I'm guessing you are on Meteor 3?

[Crownedprinz]

@StorytellerCZ Yes I am on version 3.1.2

[myerslpgas]

@StorytellerCZ Yes. It's meteor 3.