Ready-to-use authentication service for your application. With a React connector.
Authentication is always a nightmare. Every time you start a new small pet project, you reimplement the wheel solving a "how to make user login" problem. Thau is here for you!
Thau is a ready-to-use service that you can integrate easily into your project that handles authentication for you.
Thau is data storage agnostic (currently supported data storages: SQLite, MongoDB, Postgres, but the list is easily extendable).
Thau is authentication strategy agnostic (currently supported strateegies: password, google, facebook, but the list is easily extendable)
Thau is running in docker
Thau is written in TypeScript so anyone from your team will be able to work with it's source
The Thau API exchange any of the supported login strategies for a token, that can be exchanged for a user against the same Thau API.
No matter what's the strategy you user choose to use, you always get back a token and a user object having the same shape
If you are using Thau API with react-thau, this token is then stored in localStorage or in Cookies of your client.
You can still use the Thau API without react-thau, then the client implementation is on your own responsebility. But the API is still here for you to generate a token for any supported login strategy and to exchange the token for a user object.
Thau has 2 parts:
- thau-api - backend service that interacts with your data storage and provides an API for your applications to consume.
- react-thau - react library that contains all required client-side code to work with
thau-api.
In order to start the thau-api service, you have to provide a list of configurations (such as selected data storage and credentials to access it) as well as login strategies parametres (such as Google Client ID). Here is a simplest example (through it is very configurable):
docker run -e ENABLED_STRATEGIES=password -e ENV=local -e DATA_BACKEND=sqlite mgrin/thau
Please see related documentations for more information