bones-passport

Bones Passport

Provides a pluggable authentication middleware server that uses the Passport library.

Supports dummy, twitter, oauth1 and oauth2 authentication strategies.

Usage

Mount any of the supported authentication strategies in your bones middleware server :

// filename: servers/Middleware.bones
var express = require('express');

servers.Middleware.augment({
    initialize: function(parent, app) {
        parent.call(this, app);
        // session support is required, and is the responsibility
        // of your application to enable.
        this.use(express.session({ secret: 'secret' }));

        this.use(new servers.PassportTwitter(app));
    }
});

Configuration settings for the authentication strategies are stored in a passport.json file in the root of your application, for example:

{
    "twitter" : {
        "callbackURL": "http://mydomain:3000/auth/twitter/callback",
        "consumerKey": "get from dev.twitter.com",
        "consumerSecret": "get from div.twitter.com"
    }
}

You can initiate login by directing your user to /auth/twitter in this case, although each authentication strategy has it's own url, such as /auth/dummy and /auth/oauth2 for those relevant strategies.

Bones-passport has a basic User model that will be instanced into req.user by passport when a user has been logged in, and you can test for a logged in user with req.isAuthenticated.

Authors

• Adrian Rossouw