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Building Single-page Web Apps with Meteor

By : Fabian Vogelsteller
Book Image

Building Single-page Web Apps with Meteor

By: Fabian Vogelsteller

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Building Single-page Web Apps with Meteor
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Adding admin functionality to our templates


The best way to allow editing of our post is to add an Edit post link to our post's page, which can only be seen if we are logged in. This way, we save rebuilding a similar infrastructure for an additional backend, and make it easy to use as there is no strong separation between frontend and backend.

First, we will add a Create new post link to our home template, then add the Edit post link to the post's pages template, and finally add the login buttons and form to the main menu.

Adding a link for new posts

Let's begin by adding a Create new post link. Open the home template at my-meteor-blog/clients/templates/home.html and add the following lines of code just above the {{#each postsList}} block helper:

{{#if currentUser}}
    <a href="/create-post" class="createNewPost">Create new post</a>
{{/if}}

The {{currentUser}} helper comes with the accounts-base package, which was installed when we installed our accounts packages. It will return...