Server side routes in Iron Router and Meteor

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It seems that in Meteor, we cannot call a server side route to render a file to the page without some sort of work-around from our normal workflow, from wh

Answer 1

Your server-side routes are running the global onBeforeAction code (it's defined in a shared directory), which breaks because the server routes are simple REST endpoints which don't understand user authentication information (i.e. Meteor.user() doesn't work). The solution is to wrap the client-specific onBeforeAction calls with Meteor.isClient or simply move that code under the client directory. For example:

if (Meteor.isClient) {
  Router.onBeforeAction(function () {
    if (!Meteor.user() || Meteor.loggingIn())
      this.redirect('welcome.view');
    else
      this.next();
    }
    ,{except: 'welcome.view'}
  );

  Router.onBeforeAction(function () {
    if (Meteor.user())
      this.redirect('home.view');
    else
      this.next();
    }
    ,{only: 'welcome.view'}
  );
}

Router.route('/pdf-server', function() {
  ...
}, {where: 'server'});