DevMountain Auth

With Passport & JSON Web Tokens

This module is a Passport strategy to allow for DevMountain microservice authentication with relatively little configuration. You get all the normal benefits of Passport, including auth redirect/callback, req.user and req.logout, and serializing the user onto the session. Successful authentication will provide a user object with email, user roles, and the unique id from the authentication server database. If your app needs different/more information, it must be configured on DevMountain's app.

Example/recommended server setup here.

Testing: npm test.

Usage

• Install devmtn-auth: npm i -S devmtn-auth

• Add devmtnAuthConfig.js to your .gitignore

• touch a devmtnAuthConfig.js and set it up like this (you provide specific values):

  module.exports = { app : 'app-name' , client_token : 'client-token' , callbackURL : 'callbackURL' , jwtSecret : 'jwtSecret' }

That's it for setup! However, for this to work, your app must be configured on the authentication server, and you must be given appropriate configuration values.

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The token can be accessed in the verification callback when you set up the strategy.

passport.use('devmtn', new DevmtnStrategy(devmtnAuthConfig, function(jwtoken, user, done){
  // could attach the token to the session for use against DevMountain APIs
  req.session.jwtoken = jwtoken
  User.findOrCreate({email: user.email}, function(err, local_user){
    return done(err, local_user)
  })
}))

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For convenience, devmtn-auth exposes a checkRoles function that can be used to verify user roles from the decoded JSON web token.

var Devmtn = require('devmtn-auth')
Devmtn.checkRoles(req.user, 'student')
// returns bool