Fauna Auth

A library for user authentication backed by FaunaDB

Installation

# npm 
npm i --save fauna-auth
 
#yarn 
yarn add fauna-auth

Setup

There are a few preliminary steps.

1. Create an account at fauna.com
2. Create a database
3. Inside the database you just made, create two collections: users and tokens.
4. Create three indexes.
   1. One called "username" for the users collection with "data.username" as the term.
   2. One called "tokens" for the tokens collection with "data.refreshTokens" as the term.
   3. One called "byId" for the tokens collection with "data.userId" as the term.
5. Create a new key for your database.
6. Create two secrets (long, preferably random strings) for signing jwt tokens.
   1. One for access tokens.
   2. Another for refresh tokens.

Note: Please do not commit your key to github. All the examples below will be using environment variables.

Now that you have your key and your secrets, you can initialize the library.

const initAuth = require('./index')
 
const FaunaAuth = initAuth({
  dbSecret: process.env.DB_SECRET,
  accessSecret: process.env.ACCESS_SECRET,
  refreshSecret: process.env.REFRESH_SECRET,
  tokenDuration: 1000 * 60 * 15,
})

And finally, you can manage and authenticate users.

// Create a user
const newUser = await FaunaAuth.create('username', 'password', { some: 'data' })
 
// Update a user
const updatedUser = await FaunaAuth.update(existingUser.id, { more: 'data' })
 
// Change a user's password
const updatedUser = await FaunaAuth.changePassword(existingUser.id, 'newPassword')
 
// Delete a user
await FaunaAuth.delete(updatedUser.id)
 
// Authenticate a user
const user = await FaunaAuth.authenticate('username', 'password')
 
// Create tokens
const { accessToken, refreshToken } = await FaunaAuth.createTokens(user)
 
// Verify access tokens
const verifiedUser = await FaunaAuth.verify(accessToken)
 
// Refresh tokens
const { accessToken, refreshToken } = await FaunaAuth.refreshToken(refreshToken)
 
// Delete refresh tokens when the user manually logs out
await FaunaAuth.deleteRefreshToken(refreshToken)
 
// Or
await FaunaAuth.deauthenticate(user)

Todo

• Social Authentication