fastify-bearer-auth

fastify-bearer-auth provides a simple request hook for the Fastify web framework.

Example

'use strict'

const fastify = require('fastify')()
const bearerAuthPlugin = require('fastify-bearer-auth')
const keys = new Set(['a-super-secret-key', 'another-super-secret-key'])

fastify.register(bearerAuthPlugin, {keys})
fastify.get('/foo', (req, reply) => {
  reply.send({authenticated: true})
})

fastify.listen({port: 8000}, (err) => {
  if (err) {
    fastify.log.error(err.message)
    process.exit(1)
  }
  fastify.log.info('http://127.0.0.1:8000/foo')
})

API

fastify-bearer-auth exports a standard Fastify plugin. This allows you to register the plugin within scoped paths. Therefore, you could have some paths that are not protected by the plugin and others that are. See the Fastify documentation and examples for more details.

When registering the plugin you must specify a configuration object:

• keys: A Set or array with valid keys of type string (required)
• function errorResponse (err) {}: method must synchronously return the content body to be sent to the client (optional)
• contentType: If the content to be sent is anything other than application/json, then the contentType property must be set (optional)
• bearerType: string specifying the Bearer string (optional)
• function auth (key, req) {} : this function will test if key is a valid token. The function must return a literal true if the key is accepted or a literal false if rejected. The function may return also a promise that resolves to one of these values. If the function returns or resolves to any other value, rejects, or throws a HTTP status of 500 will be sent. req is the Fastify request object. If auth is a function, keys will be ignored. If auth is not a function, or undefined, keys will be used.

The default configuration object is:

{
  keys: new Set(),
  contentType: undefined,
  bearerType: 'Bearer',
  errorResponse: (err) => {
    return {error: err.message}
  },
  auth: undefined
}

Internally, the plugin registers a standard Fastify preHandler hook which will inspect the request's headers for an authorization header with the format bearer key. The key will be matched against the configured keys object via a constant time alogrithm to prevent against timing-attacks. If the authorization header is missing, malformed, or the key does not validate then a 401 response will be sent with a {error: message} body; no further request processing will be performed.

License

MIT License