express-user-auth

Quickly add user authentication to your Express app

• Works with any database
• Password hash stored using bcrypt
• Password reset functionality
• TODO: Login with Facebook, Twitter, Google, or Github

Install

npm i express express-user-auth

Requirements

Your createUser and updateUser methods must be able to save the following fields:

• passwordHash
• passwordAlgo
• passwordResetToken

Usage

import express from 'express'
import auth from 'express-user-auth'
 
const app = express()
 
// all functions are async and should return a Promise
app.use('/', auth({
  sessionSecret: 'XXXX',
  jwtSecret: 'XXXX',
  createUser: function (user) { return user },
  getUserByUsername: function (username) { return user },
  updateUser: function (data) { return user },
  sendPasswordReset: function ({ user, uri }) { },
  passwordResetRedirectURL: '/'
}))
 
app.listen(3000)

Routes

express-user-auth creates the following routes:

• GET /register

• GET /login

• GET /forgot-password

• GET /reset-password

• POST /register

• POST /login

• POST /send-password-reset

• POST /reset-password

Screenshots

You get this UI out of the box:

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