Redirect after Login using Meteor and Iron Router

Question

I'm using the built in loginButtons options with Meteor and I would like to redirect after a user logs in. Using the built in web snippets means I can't use the callback with Meteor.loginwithPassword and I can't see any hooks inside Iron-Router to do the redirect.

Any suggestions?

did you try this https://github.com/EventedMind/iron-router#using-hooks Router.before(mustBeSignedIn, {except: ['login', 'signup', 'forgotPassword']}); — pahan, Jan 23 '14 at 18:09
I can't see any example pieces of code using this to see how to use it — user2243825, Jan 23 '14 at 19:20

score 22 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 10 '16 at 02:29

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Meteor often renders so quickly that the page is being loaded before the user has been defined. You need to use Meteor.loggingIn() to account for the situation in which you are in the process of logging in. This code works for me:

this.route('myAccount', {
  path: '/',
  onBeforeAction: function () {
    if (! Meteor.user()) {
      if (!Meteor.loggingIn()) Router.go('login');
    }
  }
}

edited Jul 10 '16 at 02:29

Minderov

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answered May 06 '14 at 06:28

Charlie Morris

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`if (!Meteor.loggingIn()) Router.go('login');` – good_evening Aug 29 '14 at 23:53

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 06 '15 at 07:15

This example might be useful

// main route render a template
Router.route('/', function () {
    this.render('main');
});

// render login template
Router.route('/login', function () {
    this.render('login');
});  


// we want to be sure that the user is logging in
// for all routes but login
Router.onBeforeAction(function () {
    if (!Meteor.user() && !Meteor.loggingIn()) {
        this.redirect('/login');
    } else {
        // required by Iron to process the route handler
        this.next();
    }
}, {
    except: ['login']
});

// add here other routes

// catchall route
Router.route('/(.*)', function () {
    this.redirect('/catchallpage');
});

score 5 · Answer 3 · edited May 10 '15 at 11:09

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it should be very easy just add something like:

Tracker.autorun(function() {
  var currentRoute = Router.current();
  if (currentRoute === null) {
    return;
  }

  if (currentRoute.route.getName() === 'login' && Meteor.user() !== null)
    Router.go('WelcomeNewUser');
  }

You can also just use the same route with another template in case the user is not logged in.

just something like this:

this.route('myAccount', {
   before: function () {
     if (!Meteor.user()) {
       this.render('login');
       this.stop();
     }
   }
}

There is no magic, just looked into the docs ;)

edited May 10 '15 at 11:09

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answered Apr 17 '14 at 21:02

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Note that `Deps` is now called `Tracker`. – James M. Lay Oct 07 '14 at 23:50
Is there a way to undo `this.stop()` after the user logged in? – HaNdTriX Nov 20 '14 at 15:20

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 25 '14 at 02:10

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You can simply use one of your existing routes you have configured in Ireland route

Router.go('/myRouterPathToTemplate')

answered Jan 25 '14 at 02:10

johntday

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Can you add an example of how this would be implemented – Chris Apr 08 '14 at 02:36

Redirect after Login using Meteor and Iron Router

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