A really simple boilerplate for getting an app with Express, Socket.IO and Passport up and running.
I find myself starting a lot of apps with this setup so I figured I'd knock up a quick boilerplate that just covers the basics of setting up an OAuth2-based authentication with Passport and applying it to a simple Express app with Socket.io integration for realtime sockety goodness.
This repo is intended as more of a guide, but if you want you can fairly easily run the app.
I've used the Google OAuth2 strategy because that's the one I use most frequently. You can trivially switch it out for another strategy, or you can get your own Google OAuth 2 credentials and run it.
To get it going:
npm install
# copy config.js.example to config.js and edit your configuration
npm run start
We use MemoryStore as the session store, which you shouldn't do in production. In a real app you'll want to switch it out with something else.
There are two things you need to consider when using middleware to change the behaviour of routes:
- Middleware must be declared BEFORE the route (ie app.use before app.get or app.route)
- App routes will run any middleware that matches the beginning of the path. ie,
app.use('/foobar')will run onapp.get('/foobar')app.get('/foobar/qux')