jamielob

How to get facebook login working with Meteor and Cordova on iOS

Step 1: Make your local dev site internet accessible

Because there is an issue with OAuth2 login and localhost development, you currently have to deploy your meteor site to be able to test the Facebook login. A nice little workaround for this is to make the local instance of meteor accessible externally.

There is a great online guide for setting up port forwarding with your router and you can check your public external IP here.

For example, If you have an Apple router, simply open up Airport Utility on your Mac and click edit on your router, then go to the Network tab. Under Port Settings click the + icon and select Personal Web Sharing, setting all of the public and private ports to 3000. Make sure the private IP is set to your current computer IP.

fightingtheboss

# This deploy script takes a parameter to define the number of instances to deploy (default is 1)
# ex: cap deploy -s instances=3

set :application, "YOUR_APP_NAME"

set :repository,  "git@YOUR_GIT_REPOT.git"
set :scm, :git
set :deploy_via, :remote_cache
set :user, "deploy"
set :deploy_to, "/home/deploy/www/#{application}"

possibilities

From Meteor's documentation:

In Meteor, your server code runs in a single thread per request, not in the asynchronous callback style typical of Node. We find the linear execution model a better fit for the typical server code in a Meteor application.

This guide serves as a mini-tour of tools, trix and patterns that can be used to run async code in Meteor.

Basic async

Sometimes we need to run async code in Meteor.methods. For this we create a Future to block until the async code has finished. This pattern can be seen all over Meteor's own codebase: