sceptik

Very simple yet powerful tool for role 👩‍💻 and attribute 👀 based permission checking. Includes support for your own dynamic checkers.

Example

import initSceptik from 'sceptik'
 
// Define yor own checkers
const isAuthor = (user, { entity }) => {
  return user.id === entity.author.id
}
 
// Create your rule matrix
// Sceptik uses initials as in unix `cwrdlx`
export const rules = [
  { role: 'guest',      target: 'article',    permissions: [['--r---'], ['cwrdlx', isAuthor]]  },
  { role: 'pro',        target: 'article',    permissions: [['c-r-l-']]                        },
]
 
//
const { getPerms } = initSceptik({
  rules
})
 
// EXAMPLE 1: 🍪
 
const emily = getPerms({ roles: ['guest'] }, 'article')
 
console.log(
  emily.perms,        // ['r']
  emily.canEdit,      // false
  emily.canCreate,    // false
  emily.canRead,      // true
  emily.canDelete,    // false
  emily.canList,      // false
  emily.canOnlyRead,  // true
  emily.canExecute,   // false
  emily.cannotCreate, // true 
  emily.cannotEdit,   // true
  emily.cannotRead,   // false
  emily.cannotDelete, // true
  emily.cannotList,   // true
  emily.cannotExecute // true
)
 
 
// EXAMPLE 2: 🍬
 
const user = { roles: ['guest'] }
const { canCreate } = getPerms(user, 'article')
 
console.log(canCreate) // false
 
 
// EXAMPLE 3 (Dynamic check on entity): 🍫
 
const user = { id: 1, roles: ['guest'] }
const article = { author: user }
 
const { perms } = getPerms(user, 'article', { entity: article })
 
console.log(perms) // ['c', 'w', 'r', 'd', 'l', 'x']
 
 

Available permissions

Every permission is identified as in unix. The list is extended by some more.

• c: create
• w: write/edit
• r: read
• d: delete
• l: list
• x: execute

getPerms though, return not only the list of the permissions but a list of syntactical bools to improve readability when using the api:

• canCreate
• canEdit
• canRead
• canDelete
• canList
• canOnlyRead
• canExecute
• cannotCreate
• cannotEdit
• cannotRead
• cannotDelete
• cannotList
• cannotExecute

NOTE: Role admin has always all cwrdlx

Roadmap

• Add entity checking (ownsership)
• Make it extensible (add and interpret checker functions in rule matrix)
• Add React Hook usePerms
• Make permission types extensible (add more than just cwrdlx
• Add async initialization (permission matrix may come from the backend)
• Add async dynamic checking of rules

The MIT License (MIT)

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