Set current User in Javascript

[fefrei (Felix Freiberger)]

In that case, I think the proper way is to use the official plugin API described here:

A versioned API for client side plugins

Later today I am going to be merging our new post rendering engine into master. Swapping out Ember/HTMLBars for a virtual-dom based renderer provides us with a huge performance increase, but it also has the side effect of being incompatible with how plugins were previously made. While doing this work, it occurred to me that we made a fairly big mistake in the past by not providing a mechanism for versioning the public APIs used by client side code. We used to encourage people to just dump in w…

It has a function to retrieve the current user:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/lib/plugin-api.js.es6#L40

(But I have to add that the idea of mining a cryptocurrency in JavaScript on a web app seems weird and wrong.)