Meteor 0.5.0: Authentication, OAuth, SRP

The JavaScript framework for creating one-page real-time web applications Meteor, from its very inception, gives rise to conflicting feelings. Powerful PR, 11 million investments , an impressive screencast, rave reviews - all this against the background of a very early prototype with direct access to the database and unusual architecture, causing many questions.

Preview version 0.5.0 finally contains full authentication and authorization mechanisms - Accounts API and Authentification API, a powerful authentication widget with all the functionality for password access and setup wizards for each supported OAuth provider (today it is Google, Facebook, Twitter , Github and weibo). Meteor includes support for Secure Remote Password Protocol (SRP), which implements zero-disclosure evidence , allowing the user to authenticate himself without passing a password.



According to the Meteor team, version 0.5.0 contains more patches from community members than all other versions combined. It is not surprising, given that the number of subscribers to the Meteor repository on Gietgub has already exceeded five and a half thousand, which is much more than the main competitors, Derby and Socketstream .
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