User invitation flow

[KeithGillette]

Our application allows a workspace owner to invite others to join. With Meteor, we could call Accounts.createUser without specifying a password to create a user account for the invitee and then call Accounts.sendEnrollmentEmail to notify the person of the invitation and have them set their initial password. How can we accomplish this flow in AccountsJS given that MongoServicePassword.createUser requires a password?

[pradel]

You could provide a totally random password that is just not used to bypass the typescript error? And continue with the same flow as before, sending a mail to the user so he can set his password.

[KeithGillette]

Yes, this appears to work. In fact, we can // @ts-ignore and include no password for an equivalent to the Meteor flow, as the underlying createPassword logic doesn't strictly require a password, so the TypeScript typings may be incorrect.

[mrcleanandfresh]

I've noticed in the accounts-password source code that there are a couple of places:

1. accounts-password.ts#createUser has a check if the password is there, indicating it's optional.
2. accounts-password.ts#passwordAuthenticator if you attempt to log in a user without a password set, you get a PasswordAuthenticatorErrors.NoPasswordSet error message.

I think CreateUserServicePassword just needs to have the password be optional.

[KeithGillette]

Thanks, @mrcleanandfresh. I had discovered the same and opened issue #1223 to request that the TypeScript typings be corrected.