Allow users to login anonymously (i.e. no username, email, password, or OAuth service like accounts-google)
This package is part of the brettle:accounts-* suite of packages. See
brettle:accounts-deluxe
for an overview of the suite and a live demo.
- Supports truly anonymous users
- Does not require accounts-password
- Fires server event when an anonymous user logs in as a different user
meteor add brettle:accounts-anonymousOn the client, to login as a new anonymous user, call
AccountsAnonymous.login([callback]), while not logged in. The optional
callback runs with no arguments on success, or with a single Error argument
on failure. If the login was successful, Meteor will have stored a "resume"
login token in the browser's localStorage which it will automatically send when
making future connections to the server. This token allows the user to resume
as the same anonymous user as long as the token exists (i.e. the user hasn't
logged out or logged in as some other user), and hasn't
expired.
On the server, call AccountsAnonymous.onAbandoned(func) to register a callback
to call if an anonymous user logs in as a different user. When this occurs,
Meteor replaces the anonymous user's token with the new user's token, so there
will be no way to log in again as the anonymous user. The func callback takes
the anonymous user as its sole argument. You might use the call back to clean
up any data associated with the user.
This is a friendly hard fork of the great artwells:accounts-guest package. Before the fork, I contributed code which added support for using artwells:accounts-guest without accounts-password. I'm forking now because I'm not interested in the password-based guests which that package uses and I'd also like to split out some of the features into separate packages. I don't see any way to make these changes to artwells:accounts-guest without breaking compatibility for existing users of that package. Thus the hard fork.