djhi / session-store

A persistent meteor session store based on amplify

Session Store

What does it do ?

This plugin will allow you to persist session variables during browser reloads and revisits using amplify.

Why?

I was expecting the meteor default Session.set('myVar', 'myVal') to act like a regular session. I was quite surprised to see that, when reloading the page, my session vars where gone. This package will expose a new api called SessionStore which inherits from Session. This means that all your session variables will still be reactive.

Usage

Installation:

meteor add smeevil:session-store

Basic usage:

You basically use this the same as you would with Session.

To store something :

SessionStore.set('myVar', 'myVal');

To retrieve something :

SessionStore.get('myVar');
# "myVal"

As an added bonus you can now inspect the store by :

SessionStore.inspect();
# {"myVar": "myVal"}

You can clear a single var using the unset method, which will return the value it contained :

SessionStore.unset('myVar');
# "myVar"

and to clear the complete store :

SessionStore.clear();
# null

Attribution:

Initial idea for this code came from sebastien.b at Stack Overflow : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11705825/persistent-sessions-in-meteor#answer-14659117

Licensed under the WTFPL License. See the LICENSE file for details.