Thream/socketio-jwt
Authenticate socket.io incoming connections with JWTs.
⚠️ This project is not maintained anymore, you can still use the code as you wish and fork it to maintain it yourself.
## 📜 About
Authenticate socket.io incoming connections with JWTs.
This repository was originally forked from [auth0-socketio-jwt](https://github.com/auth0-community/auth0-socketio-jwt) and it is not intended to take any credit but to improve the code from now on.
## Prerequisites
- [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/) >= 16.0.0
- [Socket.IO](https://socket.io/) >= 3.0.0
## 💾 Install
**Note:** It is a package that is recommended to use/install on both the client and server sides.
```sh
npm install --save @thream/socketio-jwt
```
## ⚙️ Usage
### Server side
```ts
import { Server } from "socket.io"
import { authorize } from "@thream/socketio-jwt"
const io = new Server(9000)
io.use(
authorize({
secret: "your secret or public key",
}),
)
io.on("connection", async (socket) => {
// jwt payload of the connected client
console.log(socket.decodedToken)
const clients = await io.sockets.allSockets()
if (clients != null) {
for (const clientId of clients) {
const client = io.sockets.sockets.get(clientId)
client?.emit("messages", { message: "Success!" })
// we can access the jwt payload of each connected client
console.log(client?.decodedToken)
}
}
})
```
### Server side with `jwks-rsa` (example)
```ts
import jwksClient from "jwks-rsa"
import { Server } from "socket.io"
import { authorize } from "@thream/socketio-jwt"
const client = jwksClient({
jwksUri: "https://sandrino.auth0.com/.well-known/jwks.json",
})
const io = new Server(9000)
io.use(
authorize({
secret: async (decodedToken) => {
const key = await client.getSigningKeyAsync(decodedToken.header.kid)
return key.getPublicKey()
},
}),
)
io.on("connection", async (socket) => {
// jwt payload of the connected client
console.log(socket.decodedToken)
// You can do the same things of the previous example there...
})
```
### Server side with `onAuthentication` (example)
```ts
import { Server } from "socket.io"
import { authorize } from "@thream/socketio-jwt"
const io = new Server(9000)
io.use(
authorize({
secret: "your secret or public key",
onAuthentication: async (decodedToken) => {
// return the object that you want to add to the user property
// or throw an error if the token is unauthorized
},
}),
)
io.on("connection", async (socket) => {
// jwt payload of the connected client
console.log(socket.decodedToken)
// You can do the same things of the previous example there...
// user object returned in onAuthentication
console.log(socket.user)
})
```
### `authorize` options
- `secret` is a string containing the secret for HMAC algorithms, or a function that should fetch the secret or public key as shown in the example with `jwks-rsa`.
- `algorithms` (default: `HS256`)
- `onAuthentication` is a function that will be called with the `decodedToken` as a parameter after the token is authenticated. Return a value to add to the `user` property in the socket object.
### Client side
```ts
import { io } from "socket.io-client"
import { isUnauthorizedError } from "@thream/socketio-jwt/build/UnauthorizedError.js"
// Require Bearer Token
const socket = io("http://localhost:9000", {
auth: { token: `Bearer ${yourJWT}` },
})
// Handling token expiration
socket.on("connect_error", (error) => {
if (isUnauthorizedError(error)) {
console.log("User token has expired")
}
})
// Listening to events
socket.on("messages", (data) => {
console.log(data)
})
```
## 💡 Contributing
Anyone can help to improve the project, submit a Feature Request, a bug report or even correct a simple spelling mistake.
The steps to contribute can be found in the [CONTRIBUTING.md](./CONTRIBUTING.md) file.
## 📄 License
[MIT](./LICENSE)