Meteor angular collection search method not working

I am trying to optimize my angular / meteor code. I have a collection

Customers = new Mongo.Collection("Customers");

and the way I was showing them was:

ng-repeat="customer in customerController.customers | filter: {customerStore: myStore} ">

and in my CustomerController

this.customers = $meteor.collection(customers);

This approach (while it works) is now starting to take up a lot of memory on the client server as they add more and more storage.

So I tried to filter out the server side before sending the information to the client.

NEW CODE:

the collection code is the same

Customers = new Mongo.Collection("Customers");

Ng-repeat code is different

ng-repeat="customer in customerController.getCustomers(myStore) ">

and my controller now has this method:

    this.getCustomers = function(findByStore){
        return Customers.find({customerStore.$ : findByStore});
    }

      

        
        
        
      

    

The problem is that it returns a new collection every time, so angular treats it as a different object and tries to re-render the page.

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One common mistake is binding to a function which generates a new array every time it is called.

Someone suggested that I try

return $meteor.collection(Customers.find({'customerStore.$' : findByStore}));

      

        
        
        
      

    

but then i get the error

TypeError: The first argument of $meteorCollection must be a function or a have a find function property.