Relay Auth

This is the code for Auth0's Relay tutorial. It shows how to set up a simple Relay app that reads data from a GraphQL endpoint. It also shows how to optionally add authentication middleware to the endpoint and how to send JWTs to it for access.

This sample is based off of Michael Hart's simple-relay-starter repo.

Installation

npm install
npm run dev

Authentication

The /graphql endpoint is protected with express-jwt middlware.

// server.js

var authenticate = jwt({
  secret: new Buffer(process.env.AUTH0_CLIENT_SECRET, 'base64'),
  audience: process.env.AUTH0_CLIENT_ID
});


app.use('/graphql', authenticate, graphqlHttp({schema: schema}));

You can send a JWT to the server from the front end using Relay's network layer.

// ConferenceApp.js

var token = localStorage.getItem('id_token');

Relay.injectNetworkLayer(
 new Relay.DefaultNetworkLayer('http://localhost:3000/graphql', {
   headers: {
     Authorization: 'Bearer ' + token
   }
 })
);

License

MIT

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