Users and Accounts
Users and Accounts
How to build user login functionality into a Meteor app. Let your users log in with passwords, Facebook, Google, GitHub, and more.
After reading this article, you’ll know:
- What features in core Meteor enable user accounts
- How to use accounts-ui for a quick prototype
- How to use the useraccounts family of packages to build your login UI
- How to build a fully-featured password login experience
- How to enable login through OAuth providers like Facebook
- How to add custom data to Meteor’s users collection
- How to manage user roles and permissions
Features in core Meteor
Before we get into all of the different user-facing accounts functionality you can add with Meteor, let’s go over some of the features built into the Meteor DDP protocol and accounts-base package. These are the parts of Meteor
