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express-authen
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Auto redirect to login page middleware for Expressjs. The main features:
$ npm install express-authen
If you want to save this module into the package.json
, simply use:
$ npm install --save express-authen
This middleware uses session to check wherether user logged-in or not, and save the referer before redirecting to login page. So, you should declare it after declaring the session middleware.
var authen = require('express-authen')
app.use(authen({
'user': {
'member':{
'login':'/',
'logout':'/customers/logout',
'home':'/customers/dashboard'
},
'admin':{
'login':'/admin/login',
'logout':'/admin/logout',
'home':'/admin/home'
}
},
'default_page':'/',
'auto_refer':true,
'referer': 'referer',
'excepts':['/api/list/members', '/api/add/members']
}))
options
is an object for config middleware. options
includes:
No | Property | Default value | Description |
---|---|---|---|
1 | user | {} | Object with keys to user identity which represent the session name to validate |
2 | default_page | / | neutral page or homepage of the app that maybe not require any authentication |
3 | excepts | [] | an array - non-required auth page |
4 | auto_refer | boolean | (Optional) true or false to redirect or resume to refered page on login |
5 | referer | referer | session' key for save the referer page |
var authen = require('express-authen')
app.use(authen({
'login': '/',
'home': '/home',
'user': 'user',
'referer': 'referer',
}))
options
is an object for config middleware. options
includes:
No | Property | Default value | Description |
---|---|---|---|
1 | login | /login | login page path |
2 | home | / | default redirected page after logged-in |
3 | excepts | [] | an array - non-required auth page |
4 | user | user | session' key for determine wherether user logged-in |
5 | referer | referer | session' key for save the referer page |
FAQs
Auto redirect to login page middleware for Expressjs
We found that express-authen 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.
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