When should I subscribe to collections in meteor?

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Ok, so I am new to Meteor and to programming as a whole kinda and I have a simple best practices kind of question.

I am using Iron Router, and have been using it to subscribe to different paths. I am trying to be as lean as possible and only subscribe to the collections I need using waitOn(). But after doing some reading this afternoon it seems as though it might be overkill.

What is the best practice for when you should subscribe to a collection?

My guess is if you have a collection you use on multiple pages load the whole collection in the beginning. Then only load things you only need every now and then through Iron Router's waitOn.

I know that there isn't a catch-all answer for this, and every project is different, but any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

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yankeyhotel

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