Arctic

What is Arctic?

Arctic is a new authentication service that aims to be practical and first of all easy to use.

Notices

If you catch any errors feel free to write a mail paul.hanneforth.o@gmail.com or create an issue on GitHub.

Implementation

To implement Arctic Authentication, simply install arctic-node

npm install arctic-node

Now you can drop arctic-node into any express application using app.use("/", arcticNode(appToken)). Once the user has been logged in, the user information will be stored in req.user. If you want to log your user in, simply call res.authenticate(your-appID, callback), where your-appID should be replaced with your appID and callback with the URL the user should be redirected to when he's logged in.

Example

// import express and arcticNode
const express = require("express");
const arcticNode = require("arctic-node");

const app = express();
const port = 4000;

const appID = "[your-appID]"
const appToken = "[your-app-token]"

app.use("/", arcticNode(appToken))

app.get("/login", (req, res) => {
    // authenticate user and then redirect the user to /
    res.authenticate(appID, "http://localhost:4000/")
})
app.get("/", (req, res) => {

    // check if user is already authenticated
    if(!req.authenticated) {
        // if not than authenticate the user
        res.authenticate(appID, "http://localhost:4000/")
    }
    // if the user is authenticated then you're ready to access the user information
    res.send("Hello! " + req.user.name + " " + req.user.email);

})

app.listen(port, () => {
    console.log("Server started!")
})