Idea: Different homepage for authenticated users

Henry Wright

It would be useful to be able to set a different homepage for logged-in users.

So for example, example.com might display the category list for users who are logged-out and for users who are logged-in, example.com will display the list of recent topics.

<baris>

This can be easily done with a plugin.

Use the static:app.preload hook and add a middleware to the express object. Something like below.

myPlugin.onPreLoad = function(data, callback) {
  data.app.use(function(req, res, next) { 
    if (req.path.startsWith('/') || req.path.startsWith('/api')) {
       if (req.uid) { 
          helpers.redirect(res, '/recent');
       } else {  
          helpers.redirect(res, '/categories');
       }
    } else {
       next();  
    }
  });
  callback();  
};