SigAuth Library

Simple middleware/utilities to verify SigAuth-issued JWTs in Node.js environments.

• Framework-agnostic verifier (verifyRequest, withSigAuth)
• Express middleware (sigAuthExpress)

Install

Add as a dependency to your app once published:

pnpm add @sigauth/library

For local development of this package, see the Testing locally section.

Usage

Express

import express from 'express';
import { sigAuthExpress } from '@sigauth/library';

const app = express();
app.use(
    sigAuthExpress({
        issuer: process.env.SIGAUTH_ISSUER!,
        audience: process.env.SIGAUTH_AUDIENCE,
    })
);

app.get('/protected', (req, res) => {
    res.json({ user: req.user });
});

Node (no framework)

import http from 'http';
import { withSigAuth } from '@sigauth/library';

const handler = withSigAuth(
    (req, res) => {
        res.writeHead(200, { 'content-type': 'application/json' });
        res.end(JSON.stringify({ user: (req as any).user }));
    },
    {
        issuer: process.env.SIGAUTH_ISSUER!,
        audience: process.env.SIGAUTH_AUDIENCE,
    }
);

http.createServer(handler).listen(3000);

Options

• issuer: string (required)
• audience: string | string[] (optional)
• jwksUri: string (optional, defaults to ${issuer}/.well-known/jwks.json)
• tokenHeader: string (default: "Authorization")
• tokenCookie: string (default: "sigauth_token")
• algorithms: string[] (optional)
• leewaySeconds: number (default: 5)
• getToken(req): custom extractor

Testing locally

Without publishing, you can:

1. Build this package:

pnpm build

2. Use pnpm link --global here and pnpm link --global @sigauth/library in a sample app; or
3. Use pnpm pack to produce a tarball and install it in a sample app: pnpm add file:./dist.tar.gz
4. Alternatively, run the included examples directly:

# Express example
pnpm exec ts-node examples/express-app.ts

# Node http example
pnpm exec ts-node examples/node-server.ts

Set environment variables before running:

$env:SIGAUTH_ISSUER = "https://auth.example.com"
$env:SIGAUTH_AUDIENCE = "my-api"

License

MIT