action-cable-react-jwt

Same as action-cable-react, but allows authenticating websockets using JWTs

Installation

Yarn:

yarn add action-cable-react-jwt
 

npm:

npm install action-cable-react-jwt
 

Usage

Import action-cable-react-jwt

import ActionCable from 'action-cable-react-jwt.js';
 
// if you don't use ES6 then use
// const ActionCable = require('action-cable-react-jwt.js');
 

Creating an actioncable websocket

let App = {};
App.cable = ActionCable.createConsumer("ws://cable.example.com", jwt) // place your jwt here
 
// you shall also use this.cable = ActionCable.createConsumer(...)
// to create the connection as soon as the view loads, place this in componentDidMount

Subscribing to a Channel for Receiving data

this.subscription = App.cable.subscriptions.create({channel: "YourChannel"}, {
      connected: function() { console.log("cable: connected") },             // onConnect
      disconnected: function() { console.log("cable: disconnected") },       // onDisconnect
      received: (data) => { console.log("cable received: ", data); }         // OnReceive
}
 

Send data to a channel

this.subscription.send('hello world')
 

Call a method on channel with arguments

this.subscription.perform('method_name', arguments)
 

In your ApplicationCable::Connection class in Ruby add

# app/channels/application_cable/connection.rb 
module ApplicationCable
  class Connection < ActionCable::Connection::Base
    identified_by :current_user
 
    def connect
      self.current_user = find_verified_user
    end
 
    private
 
    def find_verified_user
      begin
        header_array = self.request.headers[:HTTP_SEC_WEBSOCKET_PROTOCOL].split(',')
        token = header_array[header_array.length-1]
        decoded_token = JWT.decode token, Rails.application.secrets.secret_key_base, true, { :algorithm => 'HS256' }
        if (current_user = User.find((decoded_token[0])['sub']))
          current_user
        else
          reject_unauthorized_connection
        end
      rescue
        reject_unauthorized_connection
      end
    end
 
  end
end

And in YourChannel.rb

# app/channels/you_channel.rb 
class LocationChannel < ApplicationCable::Channel
 
  # calls connect in client 
  def subscribed
    stream_from 'location_user_' + current_user.id.to_s
  end
 
  # calls disconnect in client 
  def unsubscribed
    # Any cleanup needed when channel is unsubscribed 
  end
  
  # called when send is called in client 
  def receive(params)
    print params[:data]
  end
  
  # called when perform is called in client 
  def method_name(params)
    print params[:data]
  end
  
end

Remove a subscription from cable

App.cable.subscriptions.remove(this.subscription)
 
// Place this in componentWillUnmount to remove subscription on exiting app
 

Add a subscription to cable

App.cable.subscriptions.add(this.subscription)
 

Querying url and jwt from cable

console.log(App.cable.jwt);
console.log(App.cable.url);
 

Querying subscriptions and connection from cable

console.log(App.cable.subscriptions);
console.log(App.cable.connection);
 

License

MIT

Copyright (c) 2017 Zeke

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