Painless Node.js Authentication

Developer Blog Comments
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Painless Node.js Authentication

Learn how to implement secure authentication for your Node.js applications.

2

Major Ocelot

Is there a way to avoid passing the middleware as a parameter, such that the middleware is always called for authenticated routes? but not passed in for every route?

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Matt Raible

Yes. Try this:


const app = express();


const publicRoutes = express.Router();
// add public routes here
// publicRoutes.get(’/home’, …)
app.use(publicRoutes);


const privateRoutes = express.Router();
privateRoutes.use(oidc.ensureAuthenticated());
// add private routes here
// privateRoutes.get(’/account’, …)
app.use(privateRoutes);


app.listen(…);