Handshake Login

A (fully-typed) JavaScript library for authentication with Handshake names, for use by validating servers (websites) and identity managers.

Features

• Add Login with Handshake to your website
• Build Identity Managers
• Use without any intermediaries (OAuth servers, etc.)
• Works in NodeJs and Browsers
• Supports multiple strategies

Demo

This library is used in an example Express server (repo). Try it out at https://sample-hs-login-server.herokuapp.com/.

It is also used in an identity manager.

Installation

NodeJs: Requires NodeJs v16+ if used on the server-side as it depends on native SubtleCrypto. Browsers: The v16+ requirement doesn't apply if it is used in a browser context (so a React/Vue app being developed with NodeJs v14 is fine.)

Install it with:

npm install --save handshake-login
# or
yarn add handshake-login

Usage/Examples

Websites

To add Login With Handshake to your website, only 2 main methods are needed: one to generate a request URL and another to verify the response on callback.

const hLogin = new HandshakeLogin();
const requestUrl = await hLogin.generateRequestUrl({
  domain: 'example',
  challenge: 'randomly-generated-challenge---keep-track-server-side',
  callbackUrl: 'http://localhost:3000/callback',
});
// Redirect to requestUrl

// On Callback
const hLogin = new HandshakeLogin();
const responseData = hLogin.parseResponseDataFromUrl(url);
const verified = await hLogin.verifyResponseData(req.session.challenge);
// Authenticate based on `verified` boolean
// That's it!

Check out this example Express server for a compelete example.

Identity Managers / Other Use Cases

Documentation is generated and explains all public methods. Check out this identity manager for how the different methods can be used.

Documentation

Generated documentation (with TypeDoc) is available at https://rithvikvibhu.github.io/handshake-login/.

Running Tests

To run tests, run the following command:

npm run test

Code coverage reports can be generated with:

npm run cov

Contributing

Contributions are always welcome! However, please create an issue before starting any work so there won't be any repeated/wasted effort.

To add new strategies, have a look at lib/strategies/. Similar to existing ones, create a new folder and make the class inherit the AbstractStrategy class.

Development

Clone the project

git clone [e-mail]:rithvikvibhu/handshake-login.git
cd handshake-login

Install dependencies

npm install

In 2 terminals, start the build and test watchers

# in parallel:
npm run watch:build
npm run watch:test

For one-time runs:

npm run build
npm run test

Acknowledgements

• Namebase Developer docs for the concept
• Namebase ID Manager for code reference and the first strategy
• @Falci's gist for basic functions and simplified flow