Sometimes you need to roll out a prototype before it even has an authentication layer. Here's how to require a username and password for your application.
Important!
If it isn't obvious, this should be TEMPORARY!. A proper authentication layer should be added and sensitive data, like passwords, shouldn't be a part of an application's codebase. With that said...
Express Basic Auth
I'm going to assume some Node.js basics and that you're working with Express.
First, install the express-basic-auth dependency: npm i express-basic-auth
.
Require the auth package where you create your app
const app = require('express')();
const basicAuth = require('express-basic-auth');
and tell Express your user(s)' credentials
app.use(basicAuth({
users: { 'username': 'password' },
challenge: true,
}));
The challenge
option tells the browser to open a prompt so the user doesn't need to enter a URL prefix like username:password@...
.
Also, you can add several users to the users
object.
Simple! Now ship it.
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