Interactive Solid authentication in Node.js

Easily authenticate Node.js apps with Solid identity servers by opening the user's Web browser.

Internally, this tool will setup a temporary Web server on the localhost to allow authentication data to be handled easily and safely.

This is to be used as a tool next to @inrupt/solid-client-authn-node.

Try out how it works

To see how the interactive authentication works for the end-user, you can run this command:

$ npx solid-node-interactive-auth https://solidcommunity.net/

Logged in as https://<MY USERNAME>.solidcommunity.net/profile/card#me

You can replace https://solidcommunity.net/ with the identity provider you want to authenticate with.

Installation

$ npm install solid-node-interactive-auth

or

$ yarn add solid-node-interactive-auth

This tool requires @inrupt/solid-client-authn-node as a peer dependency:

$ npm install @inrupt/solid-client-authn-node

or

$ yarn add @inrupt/solid-client-authn-node

Usage

The following code will trigger the user's Web browser to be opened to trigger the login sequence:

import { Session } from '@inrupt/solid-client-authn-node';
import { interactiveLogin } from 'solid-node-interactive-auth';

(async function() {
  // Create a new session and log in by opening the Web browser
  const session = new Session();
  await interactiveLogin({
    session,
    oidcIssuer: 'https://solidcommunity.net/',
  });

  // Perform operations with this session
  // such as session.fetch()

  // Log out once you're done (avoids hanging Node.js process)
  await session.logout();
})();

If you don't have any specific needs for the Session object, you can also just let this tool create one for you:

const session = await interactiveLogin({
  oidcIssuer: 'https://solidcommunity.net/',
});

License

This software is written by Ruben Taelman.

This code is released under the MIT license.