AppAuth for JavaScript is a client SDK for public clients
for communicating with OAuth 2.0
and OpenID Connect providers
following the best practice
RFC 8252 - OAuth 2.0 for Native Apps.
The library is designed for use in Web Apps
, Node.js
CLI applications,
Chrome Apps
and applications that use Electron
or similar frameworks.
It strives to directly map the requests and responses of those specifications,
while following the idiomatic style of the implementation language.
The library also supports the PKCE
extension to OAuth which was created to secure authorization codes in public
clients when custom URI scheme redirects are used. The library is friendly to
other extensions (standard or otherwise) with the ability to handle additional
parameters in all protocol requests and responses.
Examples
An example application using the library is included in the src/node_app
folder and at https://github.com/googlesamples/appauth-js-electron-sample.
Auth Flow
AppAuth supports manual interaction with the Authorization Server where you need to perform
your own token exchanges. This example performs a manual exchange.
Fetch Service Configuration
AuthorizationServiceConfiguration.fetchFromIssuer(openIdConnectUrl)
.then(response => {
log('Fetched service configuration', response);
this.configuration = response;
this.showMessage('Completed fetching configuration');
})
.catch(error => {
log('Something bad happened', error);
this.showMessage(`Something bad happened ${error}`)
});
Make Authorization Requests
this.notifier = new AuthorizationNotifier();
// uses a redirect flow
this.authorizationHandler = new RedirectRequestHandler();
// set notifier to deliver responses
this.authorizationHandler.setAuthorizationNotifier(this.notifier);
// set a listener to listen for authorization responses
this.notifier.setAuthorizationListener((request, response, error) => {
log('Authorization request complete ', request, response, error);
if (response) {
this.code = response.code;
this.showMessage(`Authorization Code ${response.code}`);
}
});
// create a request
let request = new AuthorizationRequest({
client_id: clientId,
redirect_uri: redirectUri,
scope: scope,
response_type: AuthorizationRequest.RESPONSE_TYPE_CODE,
state: undefined,
extras: {'prompt': 'consent', 'access_type': 'offline'}
});
// make the authorization request
this.authorizationHandler.performAuthorizationRequest(this.configuration, request);
Making Token Requests
this.tokenHandler = new BaseTokenRequestHandler();
let request: TokenRequest|null = null;
if (this.code) {
let extras: StringMap|undefined = undefined;
if (this.request && this.request.internal) {
extras = {};
extras['code_verifier'] = this.request.internal['code_verifier'];
}
// use the code to make the token request.
request = new TokenRequest({
client_id: clientId,
redirect_uri: redirectUri,
grant_type: GRANT_TYPE_AUTHORIZATION_CODE,
code: this.code,
refresh_token: undefined,
extras: extras
});
} else if (this.tokenResponse) {
// use the token response to make a request for an access token
request = new TokenRequest({
client_id: clientId,
redirect_uri: redirectUri,
grant_type: GRANT_TYPE_REFRESH_TOKEN,
code: undefined,
refresh_token: this.tokenResponse.refreshToken,
extras: undefined
});
}
this.tokenHandler.performTokenRequest(this.configuration, request)
.then(response => {
// ... do something with token response
});
Development
Preamble
This client has been written with TypeScript.
Setup
-
Install the latest version of Node.
NVM
(Node Version Manager is highly recommended).
-
Use nvm install
to install the recommended Node.js version.
-
Download the latest version of Visual Studio Code from
here.
Provision Dependencies
This app uses npm
to provision it dependencies.
git clone
the AppAuthJS
library and go to the root folder of
the project containing package.json
file.
npm install
to install all the dev and project dependencies.
Thats it! You are now ready to start working on AppAuthJS
.
Development Workflow
The project uses npm
scripts to automate development workflows.
These scripts are made available via the package.json
file.
The following scripts are included:
-
npm run-script compile
or tsc
will compile all your TypeScript files.
All compiled files go into the built/
folder.
-
npm run-script watch
or tsc --watch
will compile your TypeScript files
in watch
mode. Recommended if you want to get continuous feedback.
-
npm run-script build-app
generates the output bundle.js
file in the built/
directory. This includes the full AppAuthJS
library including all
its dependencies.
-
npm test
provisions the Karma
test runner to run all unit tests.
All tests are written using Jasmine.
To DEBUG your tests, click on the Debug
button in the Karma test runner
to look at the actual source of the tests. You can attach break points here.
-
npm run-script app
builds the test app on a local web server.
This is an end-to-end app which uses AppAuthJS and is a demonstration
on how to use the library.
-
npm run-script node-app
builds a Node.js CLI sample app. This is an end-to-end app
which uses AppAuthJS in a Node.js context.