@nxus/users v2.3.13

@nxus/users

User management module for Nxus apps. Users provides a complete framework for managing users, authenticating routes and sessions.

Install

> npm install @nxus/users --save

Quickstart

Once Users is installed in your app, you are ready to go. It includes the following components:

• user/team models
• login/logout routes
• authentication/session middleware

Models

Uses defines a set of common models you can use to build your application, using the @nxus/storage module (which uses Waterline to provide common ORM functionality).

User

Accessing the user model:

app.get('storage').getModel('user').then((User) => {
  ...
});

Fields

• email: string
• password: string
• nameFirst: string
• nameLast: string
• position: string
• enabled: boolean
• admin: boolean
• lastLogin: datetime
• metadata: JSON
• team: relation to Team model

Convenience Methods

• name(): first + last name
• isAdmin(): boolean if user is an Admin
• validPassword(pass): returns true if the password is valid

Templates

Users defines a set of common templates you can use in your app

login

A login form preconfigured to work with the login/logout routes. Markup supports basic Bootstrap 3 CSS.

app.get('templater').render('users-login').then((content) => {
  ...
}

Routes

The Users module defines some convience routes for handling basic user functionality.

/login

Params Expects to recieve a POSTed form with the values username, password and redirect. redirect should be a url to redirect the user to on success. On login failure, the user will be redirected back to /login.

/logout

Params Expects to recieve a GET request with the param redirect, which is a url where the user will be redirected on successful logout.

API

Users

The Users Module provides a complete user authentication and authorization system.