lohmuller/colyseus-social

Authentication and Social features

Authentication and Social features for Colyseus
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Features

• Authenticate with Facebook
• Get list of user's friends
• Get list of user's online friends
• Friend requests (send, accept, decline)
• Block user

Hooks

import { hooks } from "@colyseus/social";

hooks.beforeAuthenticate((provider, $setOnInsert, $set) => {
    // assign default metadata upon registration
    $setOnInsert = {
        metadata: {
            coins: 100,
            trophies: 0
        }
    };
});

hooks.beforeUserUpdate((_id, fields) => {
    if (fields['username']) {
        if (fields['username'] === "bad word!") {
            throw new Error("can't have bad words!");
        }
    }
})

Authentication Providers

• Anonymous
• Facebook
• ...more coming soonish!

Environment Variables

• MONGO_URI: MongoDB connection URI
• JWT_SECRET: Secure secret string for authentication.

For Facebook:

• FACEBOOK_APP_TOKEN: Facebook App Token ("appid|appsecret")

For Push Notifications

• WEBPUSH_SUBJECT - mailto: or URL.
• WEBPUSH_PUBLIC_KEY - VAPID Public Key
• WEBPUSH_PRIVATE_KEY - VAPID Private Key

You can generate VAIPD keys using npx web-push generate-vapid-keys

Integration with your Node.js Web Framework

Express

import express from "express";
import socialRoutes from "@colyseus/social/express"

const app = express();
app.use("/", socialRoutes);

app.listen(8080);

TODO's

• Friend request notification (https://github.com/appfeel/node-pushnotifications)
  • On mobile
  • In the browser

License

MIT License.