Browser closing hook about meteor-user-status HOT 3 CLOSED

The user-status package already detects logouts and browser closes as session termination, and a usage example is in the README. What exactly do you mean?

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I guess i just wanted to call [1] when the user closes the browser. It looks like what you're saying is that the profile.online will be set to 'false' when that happens but will i be able to call Javascript Meteor.logout() on any hook or do i just need constantly check for profile.online being 'false'

[1] http://docs.meteor.com/#meteor_logout

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A couple of things: first, it's more complicated than just profile.online; a user can be logged on from multiple browsers and locations (each as a session) and profile.online is set to false only when all sessions are closed. However, you can also detect individual session closes (defined as logout/browser close) using the API in the README.under 'Advanced Usage'.

Second, Meteor.logout() is a client only function and all these hooks run on the server. There is no notion of logging a user out on the server. What you can do is delete their resume tokens so they can't log back in automatically, but kicking them out if they are currently logged in is more complicated.

Finally, no need to check if profile.online is false. You can observe a cursor that listens for it. Again, see the README.

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