Summary
In this chapter, we learned how to create and log in users, how we can show content and templates only to logged-in users, and how routes can be altered depending on the login status.
To learn more, take a look at the following links:
https://www.meteor.com/accounts
https://docs.meteor.com/#/full/accounts_api
https://docs.meteor.com/#/full/meteor_users
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Remote_Password_protocol
https://github.com/EventedMind/iron-router/blob/devel/Guide.md#using-hooks
You can find this chapter's code examples at https://www.packtpub.com/books/content/support/17713 or on GitHub at https://github.com/frozeman/book-building-single-page-web-apps-with-meteor/tree/chapter7.
In the next chapter, we will learn how we can create and update posts and how to control updates to the database from the client side.