This package is a middleware for managing secrets to not show the client

This is mainly meant to be used with express.js

Installation

npm i secretkeeper

Usage

const express=require("express");
const app=express();
const secretkeeper=require("secretkeeper");
const secrets=new secretkeeper.Manager({username:"guest"});
const port=process.env.PORT || 3000;
app.use(secrets.middleware);
app.get('/', (req, res)=>{
    const {usernam}=req.query;
    secrets.addSecret("username", usernam);
    res.send("logged in");
});
app.get('/dashboard', (req, res)=>{
    console.log(req.secrets);
 if(req.secrets.username && req.secrets.username!="guest"){
     res.send("Logged in")
 }
 else{
     res.status(405).redirect("/");
 }
})
app.listen(port, console.log(`listening on ${port}`));

Explanation

the secretkeeper package gives you a Manager class. we create an instance of the manager class using. Creating this needs an object, the default value for secrets

const secrets=new secretkeeper.manager({username:"guest"});

secretkeeper middleware needs to be used to store secrets inside of the session.

app.use(secrets.middleware);

To add a secret we call:

secrets.addSecret(id, value);
//Remember, secrets is the instance of Manager class we created

Whenever you specify secrets.middleware in app.use, all the secrets get stored in req.secrets where req is the request variable in the callback when specifying a route There are 2 ways to get a secret. If you have specified the middleware, req.secrets[secret_id] will give you access to the secret with id of the secret_id variable. Or you can also call secrets.getSecret(secret_id) to get the same result The third method is the deleteSecret(id) method- This deletes a secret with the given id