vue-quick-acl v0.1.1

Vue Quick ACL

A simple vue plugin to check and permissions to the frontend for ACL (Access-Control List) / RBAC (Role Based Access Control) systems.

Features

• Global $can function
• Reactive changes of permissions
• Ability to define an 'admin' which will allow any call to $can

Project setup

npm install vue-quick-acl

Usage

// main.js or component
import Vue from 'vue'
import VueQuickAcl from 'vue-quick-acl'

Vue.use(VueQuickAcl)

<script>
  // Login.vue

  export default {
    methods: {
      login() {
        myApi.login()
          .then(({user}) => {
            this.$setUserPermissions(user.permissions)

            // check and set admin
            // if(user.isAdmin) this.$setUserPermissions([], true) 
          })  
      }
    } 
  }
</script>

// Component.vue
<template>
  <div>
    <button v-if="$can('post.delete')">Delete</button
  </div>
</template>

Api

$setUserPermissions(permissions array, isAdmin boolean)

Set's the permissions and whether the user is admin.

• permissions - Array, array of permission strings i.e. ['task.delete', 'task.complete']
• isAdmin - Boolean, if the user is admin all calls to $can() will return true. default false

$can(permission string)

Returns true / false if the current user has given permission.

• permission - permission that we are checking i.e. 'order.view' or 'list comments'

Demo on Codesandbox