Meteor.user() Error: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'name' of null

Question

Im working with the Meteor framework and came by this error when I tried to return the name of the current user to a template helper.

Template.user.userName = function (){
    return Meteor.user().name;

}

<template name ="user">
    {{userName}}
</template>

I keep getting this error: (Error: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'name' of null)

However everything works fine from the javascript console.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

Meteor.user() returns null if there is no user logged in. So to be safe you should do something like Meteor.user() ? Meteor.user().name : '' Meteor.user() ? Meteor.user().name : '' .