SnapAuth SDK for NodeJS

The official NodeJS SDK for SnapAuth 🫰

This is for server code. If you're looking for the client integration, check out @snapauth/sdk.

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Installation and Setup

npm i --save @snapauth/node-sdk
# yarn add @snapauth/sdk
# etc

import SnapAuth from '@snapauth/node-sdk'
const snapAuth = new SnapAuth(process.env.SNAPAUTH_SECRET_KEY)

[!TIP] The SDK will auto-detect a SNAPAUTH_SECRET_KEY environment variable. If that's where you've set up your Secret Key, you can simplify this to const snapAuth = new SnapAuth().

Usage

All examples are in TypeScript, based roughly on an ExpressJS app.

General usage is as follows:

const response = await snapAuth.someApiCall(param1, ...)
if (response.ok) {
  // Got back a 2xx
  // console.assert(response.result !== null)
  useDataFrom(response.result)
} else {
  // Any other response, or network error
  // console.assert(response.result === null)
  // console.assert(response.errors.length > 0)
  console.error(response.errors)
}

This is similar to fetch() which you're probably already familiar with.

If the API call succeeded, the response will be in response.result.

[!NOTE] Even on successful responses, response.errors may contain information, such as deprecation or usage warnings. We suggest always examining this value.

Completing credential registration

app.post('/register', async (request, response) => {
  // You should have POSTed something like this:
  // {
  //  token: string
  //  username: string
  // }
  const token = request.body.token
  const username = request.body.username
  // Do whatever you normally do to create a new User record
  const user = createUserWithUsername(username)
  // Then save the new passkey
  const credentialInfo = await snapAuth.attachRegistration(token, {
    id: user.id, // You may need to cast this to a string first, e.g. `String(user.id)`
    handle: user.username, // Probably the value from above
  })
  // That's it. Proceed as normal.
})

[!NOTE] The id is what you should use during authentication; it can not be changed. The handle is to make client code more straightforward, and is typically the value the user would type in to a username field.

You MAY hash or obfuscate the handle, or omit it entirely. If you do, you'll need to either a) repeat the procedure in client code during authentication or b) rely on the user's id instead.

Authenticating

app.post('/signin', async (request, response) => {
  // { token: string }
  const token = request.body.token
  const auth = await snapAuth.signIn(token)
  if (auth.ok) {
    signInUserWithId(auth.result.user.id)
  } else {
    // Look at auth.errors and decide what, if anything, to display to the user.
  }
})

Building the SDK

Run npm run watch to keep the build running continually on file change.

To make the local version available for linking, run npm link in this directory.

In the project that should use the local version, run npm link '@snapauth/node-sdk' which will set up the symlinking.