Authful

A lightweight authentication library for Node

Summary

I find myself continously going through the process of implementing authentication for my projects and they only require a basic system to get started. This is a slightly higher level library that wraps jsonwebtoken and bcrypt and provides common methods.

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Installation

npm install authful -s

import * as Authful from 'authful'
 
const authful = new Authful({
  secret: 'ffj3493$R#J@$f#$Jo3ofk',
  expiresIn: '1h' // default: 24hr
})

Usage

#️⃣ Hash a password

const hash = await authful.pwd.hash({ plaintext })

:check: Check a password

const match = await authful.pwd.check({ hash, plaintext })

🔒 Create a token

const token = await authful.token.create(payload)

🔐 Decode a token

const payload = await authful.token.decode(token)

🔄 Refresh a token

const token2 = await authful.token.refresh(token)