Redirecting not logged-in users with iron-router… Again

Question

I am fighting with the common need for redirecting a user to a login page if he is not logged-in (Meteor v0.8.0 on Windows 7).

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Answer 1

It looks like this has something to do with waiting on subscriptions in waitOn.

The following solves the layout rendering issues for me:

Router.onBeforeAction(function() {
    if (!Meteor.user() && this.ready())
        return this.redirect('/login');
}, {except: ['login']});