Force Meteor To Refresh / Re-render Templates?

[Gage Bachik]

*For reference I'm using iron router.

Instead of a sign in page I have this global sign in form embedded in an nav (aka on every page). Right now I'm doing a really hacky refresh to reload the page once a user logs in.

I would like to just reload to the template aka not refresh the whole page. Basically just want the templates rendered function to rerun on login.

Here's my current login code:

'submit #login': function(event, template){
    event.preventDefault();
    var handle = template.find('#usernameLogin').value;
    var secretKey = template.find('#passwordLogin').value;
    Meteor.loginWithPassword(handle, secretKey, function(err){
        if (err) {
            alert(err);
        }else{
            $('#close').click();
            /* replace this with reactive ajax or whatever when you can! */
            Meteor._reload.reload();
        }
    });
},

[Gage Bachik]

got it working by doing this:

Template.tournament.rendered = function () {
 Deps.autorun(function () {
 var self = this;
 thisCampaign = Session.get('campaign');

don't know if that was a good way to do it though hah.

[Jon James]

I believe you're looking for this: https://docs.meteor.com/#/full/template_autorun

From what I can tell, in your current code, the autorun will never get destroyed even after the template is destroyed. It's essentially a memory leak.

[Gage Bachik]

Sweet that was perfect! Thank you!

[Tomas Trescak]

Hi, how do you actually use this? Thanks!

[Dirk Porsche]

Hi,

if this is depending on logged-in state, you could use Meteor.user() which is reactive and returns a falsey value until a user has successfully logged in. Checking this state in your template helper will result in a template refresh on change. No "autorun()" necessary.

Regards

Dirk

[Dirk Porsche]

@Tomas Trescak, what's your use case, the context?

Regards

Dirk