Since I have only been using Meteor web application development, I am still trying to get down the structure of how the framwork works. One of the problems I ran into was form submitting. For the digits 3, when I input the correct data for the collections for the contacts data in the home page, nothing happened when I clicked submit. There were no no error, no submission on the submit call. I think the reason is that no events were bound because the submit wasn’t detected. If this is the case I suspect adding a console.warn() may be useful so the developer knows something is missing. But it could be something else entirely. Then I looked online for some answers and users on github forums suggested to turn on debug (SimpleSchema.debug = true in client code). The required field was not included on the form and the validation errors would cause submission to stop before onSubmit and before the update call.
Another problem newbie problem I ran into was earlier wih digits 2 was importing .js and .html into the correct index.html file. After some reading, I found out that if template files are in an imports/ subdirectory they don’t get automatically compiled and placed on the Template namespace. This would allow to build packages that are built with a bunch of templates but only export one of them.