Passport VS Nest

Next, use something like https://www.npmjs.com/package/passport, this is authentication middleware, and it works similarly for different authentication providers. Carefully read the documentation. OAuth is complicated, but that's because it solves a complicated problem

Passport is outdated and the project has been more or less on a stand-still for years now. As of currently, there are more than 320 open issues and very few have been resolved within the last months. I'd highly advice you not to use Passport for your applications in 2023. You've received some great alternatives by others in the comments here.

lib: The lib folder, short for "library", is mostly used to store the actual source code of the package, but it can also be used to store third-party code, utilities and helpers. Example from passport.

Research - there's github and stackoverflow documentation saying this is part of passport.js 0.6.0 that can be resolved by turning logout into a callback function (I was not the first person to encounter this error).

passport for authentication

I went down the rabbithole of using next-auth (now authjs) for a recent project. Having used Passport.js [1] for Oauth2 the last time I was doing node.js ~3 years ago, I found this library to have many footguns as comments/answers on SO and Github.

Seems like many people are trying to shoehorn their codebase [2] (!!) to make it work with the way the library manages sign-in flow, redirects, cookies, logout, etc. [3]

These were solved problems in the MEAN stack era with middlewares, but now that Next.js/react is the trend, people are doing everything they can to make it work - from relaxing security configs, to stashing things in the JWT just so some callback can get an additional piece of data.

[1] https://github.com/jaredhanson/passport

Passport to act as auth middleware to authenticate requests Passport

Checkout using NestJS that uses Passport or just checkout Passport

When using the NestJS framework, sometimes you may need to change some default timeout. You can define them just like you'd do in a plain Node.js HTTP server like so:

Back: a graphQL server built with Nestjs

NestJS - opinionated more scalable, but harder to learn docs

Pragmatically, we can apply this to a Nest application by creating an Interface for our services, separating the Presenter layer (Controller) from the Use Case (Services):

It’s a text document that contains all the commands a user could call to assemble an image. Let’s check an example of a Dockerfile for a nodejs app in this case it will be a NestJS app and then explain each part.

describe('Create bookmarks', () => { const dto: CreateBookmarkDto = { title: 'NestJS', link: 'https://nestjs.com/', }; it('should create bookmark', () => { return pactum .spec() .post('/bookmarks') .withHeaders({ Authorization: 'Bearer $S{userAt}', }) .withBody(dto) .expectStatus(201) .stores('bookmarkId', 'id')//store the bookmark id in the variable bookmarkId .expectBodyContains(dto.title) .expectBodyContains(dto.link) }); });

In my usual NodeJS tech stack, which includes GraphQL, NestJS, SQL (predominantly PostgreSQL with MikroORM), I encountered these limitations. To overcome them, I've developed a new stack utilizing Rust, which still offers some ease of development:

The purpose of this article is to provide a step-by-step guide for implementing authentication system in a NestJS project using the Passport middleware module.

That's exactly where I am. My manager gave me these links, that cover a lot of those words the backend uses, so I can identify what they mean and how to use them. 1. For inspiration and concepts: https://github.com/Sairyss/domain-driven-hexagon 2. Suggested to read the documentation for nest.js. They apply such concepts I don't understand: https://nestjs.com/