cshenoy / backbone-login

Best practices & demo for client-side authentication via Backbone.JS AJAX.

backbone-login

Best practices & demo app for client-side authentication via Backbone.js AJAX.

Blog article with further details and explanation can be found here.

The app demos the following:

• CSRF headers in authentication requests to prevent forgery
• Auth state persistence through signed cookies
• Global (singleton) session model whose state changes can be listened to
• Client-side validations through ParsleyJS
• Salt/hashing of passwords for back-end storage

Client-Side

Uses a persistent global Backbone.js SessionModel to manage state. Views and other models all can:

• subscribe to changes in session state
• extract current user data
• trigger auth events (login, logout, etc)

Server-Side

A lightweight, single-file Express.js server and SQLLite3 db. Responds to API routes, as well as initial index.html page render to plant the session CSRF token.

Install & Run

git clone https://github.com/alexanderscott/backbone-login.git
cd backbone-login
npm install
node server.js

Then visit http://localhost:3000 in a browser.

Contribute

Please fork and submit a pull request with adequate details.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013 Alex Ehrnschwender

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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