0.1.34 • Published 3 years ago

@tryghost/mw-session-from-token

Licence

MIT

Version

0.1.34

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Size

5 kB

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DeprecatedThis package is deprecated

Summary Dependency Versions

Session From Token Middleware

Middleware to handle generating sessions from tokens, for example like with magic links, or SSO flows similar to SAML.

Install

npm install @tryghost/mw-session-from-token --save

yarn add @tryghost/mw-session-from-token

Usage

const sessionFromTokenMiddleware = require('@tryghost/mw-session-from-token')({
    callNextWithError: true,
    async createSession(req, res, user) {
        req.session.user_id = user.id;
    },
    async getTokenFromRequest(res) {
        return req.headers['some-cool-header'];
    },
    async getLookupFromToken(token) {
        await someTokenService.validate(token);
        const data = await someTokenService.getData(token);
        return data.email;
    },
    async findUserByLookup(lookup) {
        return await someUserModel.findOne({email: lookup});
    }
});

someExpressApp.get('/some/sso/url', someSessionMiddleware, sessionFromTokenMiddleware, (req, res, next) => {
    res.redirect('/loggedin');
}, (err, res, res, next) => {
    res.redirect('/error');
});

Develop

This is a mono repository, managed with lerna.

Follow the instructions for the top-level repo.

git clone this repo & cd into it as usual
Run yarn to install top-level dependencies.

Run

yarn dev

Test

yarn lint run just eslint
yarn test run lint and tests