express-auth-helpers

Express auth helpers are a set of middleware and helper functions that speed up rolling your own auth for small projects.

The documentation is still being worked on :p

API Reference

Function: authenticateAction(options: Object)

Middleware function for authenticating a user that presents an bearer token. Returns an express middleware function that can be used in the typical way. options: { secret: your-jwt-key }

Example

const authenticateUser = authenticateAction({ secrets: "your-jwt-secret" });
app.post("/users/blogs", authenticateUser, ...OtherMiddleware);

Function: generateHash(password: string)

Pass in a password to generate a hash using bcrypt, currently only 10 passes. Returns the hash for storage in db

Example

const hash = generateHash("superstrongpassword");

Function: verifyPassword(password: string, hash: string)

Pass in the password provided by the user, along with the hash fetched from the DB Returns a boolean isMatch which is true for success.

Example

const { password } = req.body;
const hash = userService.fetchUserHash(id);

const isMatch = await verifyPassword(password, hash);

if (!isMatch) {
  res.json({ msg: "Wrong credentials" });
}

// rest of your code