Communicate login information

[bernatfortet]

Hi,

I have a chrome extension that uses Twitter Sign in. Also, I have a Meteor client that uses Twitter Sign in.

How can I sign in once and affect the other?

eg. I login on the meteor client and now the chrome extension is also logged.

Thank you.

[pscanf]

Hello Bernat :-),

It should be possible, theoretically, but Asteroid doesn't offer the functionality (yet :-) ).

Upon login, meteor stores your login information in localStorage with the following keys:

• Meteor.loginToken
• Meteor.loginTokenExpires
• Meteor.userId

A similar thing is done by Asteroid, which stores the login token in multiStorage, an abstraction over the various implementations of localStorage available for different platforms (in the chrome extensions platform it uses chrome.storage.local):

• {protocol}://{host}__{instanceId}__login_token_, for example https://api.mondora.com__0__login_token__

If you keep the two "storages" in sync, once you login somewhere, you're logged in everywhere. The "theoretically possible" refers to keeping the two storages in sync. I suppose you could do something like:

• before logging in with the extension, open your Meteor website in a new tab
• check if the token is present in localStorage
• if it is, retrieve it and login directly with it
• else, complete the login procedure and, upon login, inject the newly acquired token into the website's localStorage

Let me know how it goes. :-)

Cheers

[bernatfortet]

Thanks!