auth-couchdb

Node.js server authentication application for Couchdb NoSQL database

Features

• Session based setup each login is given an access token name:pass which the user can use to access the database directly, this token can be later revoked, disallowing access for the specified application/device.
• Simplified and easily extendable setup can be used with other NoSQL databases
• Using the latest and fastest API's for Node.js including fastify web framework and undici HTTP client
• Using fastify's auto directory scan for auto page addition
• Account creation, activation, modification and deletion.

Setup

Copy the source code to your Node.js project then install the packages used.

Modify .env and it declared options

ADDRESS = "http://127.0.0.1:5984" //| address of database
USERS_DB = "x-users" //| database name to be used for sessions
COUCHDB_AUTH = "YWRtaW46YWRtaW4=" //| base64 encoded `name:password` of the admin

Register

// POST /auth/register
{
    name,
    email,
    password
}
// RETURN
{
    ok: true
}

Login

// POST /auth/login
{
    email,
    password
}
// RETURN session generated info
{
    ok: true,
    token: name::password
}

Session

will delete all active session for the user.

// POST auth/delete/sessions
{
    name,
    password
}

Account

will generat delete token that can be emailed for confirmation

// POST auth/delete/account
{
    name,
    password
}

More can be seen inside /routes directory.