gplus-web-auth

Google+ login and authentication with client-side sessions for Node.js

Installation

Available via npm, to install it simply run the following line in your project:

npm install gplus-web-auth

Configuration

The module takes three parameters,

1. Google+ credentials

• A client ID. Create one on Google+ Developer Console and also configure whitelisted domains.
• Configure the scope of permissions to ask for.
• (optional) Configure a custom oauth2callback path, default is /oauth2callback.

2. Session details

• Configure the name of the cookie to use.
• A random string to encrypt the cookies.
• Duration of the token expiry
• In case token is about to expire, extend the session for.

3. Authorization method

• A function that gets the user object from Google+ as the first parameter and a callback as second parameter. Simply return a truthy value on the callback method to authorise the user.

var auth = require('gplus-web-auth')({
  google: {
    client_id: "applicationid123.apps.googleusercontent.com",
    scope: ['profile', 'email'],
    callbackPath: "/custom/oauth2callback"
  },
  session: {
    cookieName: "gplusauth", // cookie name dictates the key name added to the request object
    secret: "secret", // should be a large unguessable string
    duration: 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000, // how long the session will stay valid in ms
    activeDuration: 1000 * 60 * 5 // if expiresIn < activeDuration, the session will be extended by activeDuration milliseconds
  },
  authorize: function(req, user, done){
    var authorized = (user.email.split('@')[1] === "application.com");
    done(authorized);
  }
});

Usage

Now simply use the auth object as a middleware on your app:

app.use(auth);

and use auth.verify middleware on routes that you wish should require authentication.

app.get('/admin', auth.verify, function(req, res) {
  res.render('index');
});

Calling app.use(auth) sets up this route on your app: /oauth2callback to use for authentication callbacks.

Caveats

Because this module uses client-side sessions - you do not need a session store on the server - hence easy to get up and running. But also you should not use Express's session middleware as it might conflict.

Author

Sunil Pai, [email protected]
Param Aggarwal, [email protected]

License

gplus-web-auth is available under the MIT license.