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express-account-pages
An abstraction middleware for Express for user management on top of Passport
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express-account-pages
npm i express-account-pages
A simple to use module for Express that handles authentification (signup and login) and provide a basic account page you can place in your app.
Requires JQuery and Bootstrap 4 (JS + CSS) on the client side.
Features
- OAuth (Google and Github)
- Drop-in login/signup page
- Drop-in account management page
- Logged middleware
- Ability to disable sign ups
- Use Bootstrap
- Magic link option
- Store last logged date for users
Who uses it?
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Usage
// Init express
const express = require('express')
const app = express()
// Add your DB
const mongoose = require('mongoose')
const mongoURI = process.env.MONGO_URL || 'mongodb://localhost:27017/myappdb'
mongoose.connect(mongoURI, { useNewUrlParser: true })
// Your db schmeas
const db = require('./helpers/db')
// Parse from html forms and post payload
app.use(express.json())
app.use(express.urlencoded({ extended: true }))
// For signup and login
require('express-account-pages')(app, {
siteName: 'My Web App',
primaryColor: '#b90577',
// background: 'red',
// logoUrl: '/favicon.png',
mongoose: mongoose,
useAccessToken: true, // Access token management
redirectLogin: '/account',
redirectSignup: '/account',
// disableSignup: true,
// signupMailExtra: 'You can now create your first app.',
mongoUser: db.User,
connectors: {
github: {
clientId: "xxxxxxx",
clientSecret: "xxxxxx",
redirectUri: "https://my.app/auth/github/callback"
},
google: {
clientId: 'xxxxxxx.apps.googleusercontent.com',
clientSecret: 'xxxxxxxxx',
redirectUri: 'https://my.app/auth/google/callback'
}
}
})
Account page
Will require Bootstrap and jQuery.
In your express route:
app.get("/account", (req, res, next) => {
res.render("my_account_view", { // Where account is your page structure
accountTemplate: require.resolve("express-account-pages/account.ejs")
})
})
Make sure to have Bootstrap.js and jQuery included. Then, in your ejs:
<body>
<%- include(accountTemplate) %>
</body>
<script src="/account/account.js" defer></script>
Oauth
Currently the module supports Github and Google oauth.
The redirect URIs are predefined paths:
- /auth/github/callback for Github
- /auth/google/callback for Github
FAQs
An abstraction middleware for Express for user management on top of Passport
We found that express-account-pages demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 31 Jul 2019
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