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What is grant?

The 'grant' npm package is a middleware for OAuth that allows you to easily integrate with various OAuth providers. It supports multiple frameworks like Express, Koa, Hapi, and more. It simplifies the process of setting up OAuth flows for authentication and authorization.

What are grant's main functionalities?

Express Integration

This code demonstrates how to integrate the 'grant' package with an Express application to handle OAuth authentication with Google. It sets up the necessary middleware and routes to handle the OAuth flow.

const express = require('express');
const session = require('express-session');
const Grant = require('grant-express');

const app = express();
app.use(session({secret: 'very secret'}));
app.use(new Grant({
  defaults: {
    protocol: 'http',
    host: 'localhost:3000',
    transport: 'session',
    state: true
  },
  google: {
    key: 'GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID',
    secret: 'GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET',
    scope: ['profile', 'email'],
    callback: '/handle_google_callback'
  }
}));

app.get('/handle_google_callback', (req, res) => {
  res.json(req.session.grant.response);
});

app.listen(3000, () => {
  console.log('Server listening on http://localhost:3000');
});

Koa Integration

This code demonstrates how to integrate the 'grant' package with a Koa application to handle OAuth authentication with GitHub. It sets up the necessary middleware and routes to handle the OAuth flow.

const Koa = require('koa');
const session = require('koa-session');
const Grant = require('grant-koa');

const app = new Koa();
app.keys = ['very secret'];
app.use(session(app));
app.use(new Grant({
  defaults: {
    protocol: 'http',
    host: 'localhost:3000',
    transport: 'session',
    state: true
  },
  github: {
    key: 'GITHUB_CLIENT_ID',
    secret: 'GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET',
    scope: ['user'],
    callback: '/handle_github_callback'
  }
}));

app.use(async (ctx) => {
  if (ctx.path === '/handle_github_callback') {
    ctx.body = ctx.session.grant.response;
  }
});

app.listen(3000, () => {
  console.log('Server listening on http://localhost:3000');
});

Hapi Integration

This code demonstrates how to integrate the 'grant' package with a Hapi application to handle OAuth authentication with Twitter. It sets up the necessary middleware and routes to handle the OAuth flow.

const Hapi = require('@hapi/hapi');
const Grant = require('grant-hapi');

const start = async () => {
  const server = Hapi.server({
    port: 3000,
    host: 'localhost'
  });

  await server.register({
    plugin: Grant,
    options: {
      defaults: {
        protocol: 'http',
        host: 'localhost:3000',
        transport: 'session',
        state: true
      },
      twitter: {
        key: 'TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY',
        secret: 'TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET',
        callback: '/handle_twitter_callback'
      }
    }
  });

  server.route({
    method: 'GET',
    path: '/handle_twitter_callback',
    handler: (request, h) => {
      return request.yar.get('grant').response;
    }
  });

  await server.start();
  console.log('Server running on %s', server.info.uri);
};

start();

Other packages similar to grant

    passport

    Passport is a popular authentication middleware for Node.js. It supports a wide range of authentication strategies, including OAuth, OAuth2, OpenID, and more. Compared to 'grant', Passport offers more flexibility and a larger ecosystem of strategies, but it can be more complex to set up.

    simple-oauth2

    Simple OAuth2 is a library for integrating OAuth2 authentication in Node.js applications. It provides a straightforward API for obtaining access tokens and refreshing them. Compared to 'grant', Simple OAuth2 is more focused on OAuth2 and does not support as many frameworks out of the box.

    bell

    Bell is a Hapi plugin for third-party authentication using OAuth, OAuth2, and more. It is specifically designed for Hapi applications and provides a seamless integration with the Hapi framework. Compared to 'grant', Bell is more specialized for Hapi but does not support other frameworks.

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