Longshot Authentication API

Installation

As a dependency:

npm install ls-auth-api --save

As a standalone server:

git clone https://github.com/longshot-io/auth-api && cd auth-api
npm install

Usage

As a dependency:

var Auth = require("ls-auth-api");
// Optionally, start the web API
authApi.startWebServer(1337);

authApi.login("username", "password");

As a standalone server:

// Example: npm start [portNumber]
npm start 8181

API

Programmatic

User

interface User {
	username: string;
	password: string;
	enabled?: number; // Optional
}

Registration

register(...): Returns a promise containing the new user ID

Auth.register(user: User): Promise<number>;

Authentication

login(...): Returns a promise containing the new JWT token or gets rejected

Auth.login(username: string, password: string): Promise<string>;

Token/Session Verification

verify(...): Returns a promise that resolves a boolean. True if the token is valid

Auth.verify(token: string): Promise<boolean>;

Web Server Initialization

startWebServer(...): Returns void

Auth.startWebServer(portNumber: number): void;

HTTP Endpoints

POST /login

Accepts PAYLOAD: username: string password: string

POST /register

Accepts PAYLOAD: username: string password: string

POST /verify

Accepts PAYLOAD: token: string

License

MIT