I set the aurelia-store up as per the docs; in the main.ts at the bottom of all the plugins (from the skeleton app with dotnet core) I have as the last plugin defined:
aurelia.use.standardConfiguration()
.plugin(PLATFORM.moduleName('aurelia-store'), { initialState })
Then my app needs to login the user and save their bearer token.
await aurelia.start();
await aurelia.setRoot(PLATFORM.moduleName("modules/login/login.vm"));
In the login class I am trying to use the #connectTo decorator. However it never sets the dependency property. So I am stuck on this simple part at the very start of the app and my work already suggested not to use Aurelia but I said I wanted to for fast POC.
I've copied the docs exactly and still have the issue. Notably, I had to turn off strictNullCheck in the tsconfig to make the doc code parse.
Login.ts
#connectTo({
target: 'state',
selector: {
userToken: (store) => store.state.pipe(pluck('userToken')),
loginRedirected: (store) => store.state.pipe(pluck('loginRedirected'))
}
})
export class Login {
static inject = [Aurelia, Store]
public state: State;
app: Aurelia;
constructor(Aurelia, private store: Store<State>) {
this.app = Aurelia
store.registerAction('ChangeUserToken', this.changeUserToken)
store.registerAction('LoginRedirected', this.loginRedirect)
}
activate() {
... this.state is always undefined.
if (!this.state.loginRedirected) { //error
}
}
}
I expect the this.state property to have a state object populated from the global state store with the initialState values.
e.g.
{ userToken: "", loginRedirected: false }
I just need to set the userToken in login and retrieve it in app.js. This is not possible; what could be missing to make this basic function actually work?
ConnectTo is a helper decorator to avoid manual state subscriptions since the Stream of states is a vanilla rxjs observable. If you take a closer look at the official plugin documentation you will notice that it sets up the subscription in a different lifecycle hook.
That said connectTo cant solve everything and with manual subscription you have the most flexibility.
Dont give up with your quest you just had bad luck of falling into a more complicated scenario of startup timing right at the begin which easy enough might bite you with lots of other Frameworks/Libraries as well. Also make sure to visit the official discourse.aurelia.io forum and post back solutions to SO.
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I'm wondering if it's possible to essentially "reevaluate" the middleware conditions without actually changing the current route.
The middleware's purpose is to prevent non-logged-in users from accessing the "dashboard".
My issue is, a user could become logged in or logged out without necessarily changing route but they wouldn't be redirected until they try and change pages.
I have a VueX action that triggers when the user's auth state changes but this (from what I can see), can't access the redirect or route variables.
// /mixins/auth.js
const reevaluateAuthStatus = (store, redirect, route) => {
console.log(route)
const redirectPolicy = route.meta.map((meta) => {
if (meta.auth && typeof meta.auth.redirectPolicy !== 'undefined') { return meta.auth.redirectPolicy[0] }
return []
})
const user = store.getters['auth/getUser']
if (redirectPolicy.includes('LOGGEDOUT')) {
if (user) {
return redirect('/dashboard')
}
} else if (redirectPolicy.includes('LOGGEDIN')) {
if (!user) {
return redirect('/login')
}
}
}
module.exports = {
reevaluateAuthStatus
}
// /middleware/auth.js
import { reevaluateAuthStatus } from '../mixins/auth'
export default function ({ store, redirect, route }) {
reevaluateAuthStatus(store, redirect, route)
}
Appreciate any help on this :)
You cannot re-evaluate a middleware AFAIK because it's mainly this (as stated in the documentation)
middlewares will be called [...] on the client-side when navigating to further routes
2 clean ways you can still achieve this IMO:
use some websockets, either with socket.io or something similar like Apollo Subscriptions, to have your UI taking into account the new changes
export your middleware logic to some kind of call, that you could trigger again by calling the $fetch hook again or any other data-related fetching hook in Nuxt
Some more ugly solutions would probably be:
making an internal setInterval and check if the actual state is still valid every 5s or so
move to the same page you are actually on with something like this.$router.go(0) as somehow explained in the Vue router documentation
Still, most of the cases I don't think that this one may be a big issue if the user is logged out, because he will just be redirected once he tries something.
As if the user becomes logged-in, I'm not even sure on which case this one can happen if he is not doing something pro-active on your SPA.
I don't know if it's relevant or not, but I solved a similar problem this way:
I have a global middleware to check the auth status. It's a function that receives Context as a parameter.
I have a plugin that injects itself into context (e.g. $middleware).
The middleware function is imported here.
In this plugin I define a method that calls this middleware passing the context (since the Plugin has Context as parameter as well): ctx.$middleware.triggerMiddleware = () => middleware(ctx);
Now the middleware triggers on every route change as intended, but I can also call this.$middleware.triggerMiddleware() everywhere I want.
I have a Nuxt app with authentication already running in universal mode.
I'm trying to convert the authentication service to Auth0. I'm following the Vue quickstart, but I discovered that auth0-js is a client side library since it uses a lot of 'window'-stuff that is not available on the server-side of Nuxt.
However, I got it kind of working by making it a client-side plugin and wrap all functions (that is calling the authservice in the lifecycle hooks) in a process.client check. It works "kind of" because when going to the protected page whilst not logged in, it flashes the page before being redirected to login page (since its rendered on the server-side as well, but the check only happens once it's delivered on the client side I presume).
My question now is: What can I do in order to add the check to server-side as well? (or at least make sure that the protected pages isn't flashed before being redirected).
What I've tried so far:
Saving the payload and the logged-in state in the store and check in some custom middleware, but that didn't do the trick.
Also, it seems to me that #nuxt/auth is outdated or something and the nuxt auth0 example as well. It uses auth0-lock while I'm using the new auth0 universal.
Anyone have suggestions on how to solve this issue? Thanks in advance!
not sure if this will be any help and have only answered a few questions (other account long time ago).
Update.. I read my answer then the question title (I think my answer does cover some of your context), but in regards to the title you could also look at using auth as a plugin. You can then handle stuff there before the page is hit.
I am not sure how your code is implemented, but this may help (hopefully).
If you are not using Vuex, I strong recommend it. Nuxt Vuex Store Guide
// index/store.js
// At least have the store initialized, but its most likely going to be used..
// page.vue
<template>
...
<div v-else-if="!$auth.loggedIn">
{{ test }}
</div>
...
...
data() {
if (!this.$auth.loggedIn) {
const test = 'Only this will load, no flash'
return { test }
}
}
$auth.loggedIn is built in, I read it ..somewhere.. in the docs
This will solve the no flash issue, you can also take advantage of a loader screen and asyncData to check the state before rendering the view to avoid a flash and populate data if it hangs.
You could also try using Vuex Actions, I am currently playing with these 2 in the process of where I am now. Learning about nuxtServerInit()
// store/index.js
import axios from 'axios'
export const actions = {
nuxtServerInit ({commit}, {request}) {
// This is good if you have the user in your request or other server side stuff
if (request.user) commit('SET_USER', request.user)
},
async GET_USER({ commit }, username) {
const user = await axios.get(`/user/${username}`)
if (user) commit('SET_USER', user)
}
}
export const mutations = {
SET_USER(state, user) {
// simple set for now
state.auth.user = user || null
}
}
The second one is combined using the fetch() method on the page itself.
// page.vue
async fetch({ $auth, store }) {
await store.dispatch('GET_USER', $auth.$state.user)
}
Now you can call $auth.user in your code as needed.
$auth.user is another built in I read ..somewhere..
You can also call $auth.user with the $auth.loggedIn to check if user exists on top of being logged in $auth.user && $auth.loggedIn.
It may be this.$auth.<value> depending on where you are trying to reference it.
I learned the asyncData() gets call first and logs in my server, then data() logs values in the server console as well (false, null), but in my Brave console they're undefined, i'd like an answer to that lol
I have been struggling with trying to get Auth0 to work how I wanted with JWTs, but as I kept crawling I found useful bits along the way (even in old demos such as the one you mentioned, just nothing with the lock stuff...). Also in terms of express and my API in general... Anyways, hope this helped (someone).
I am having trouble getting dependency injection working for my AuthorizerService. Obviously, dep-inj is not ready until after Aurelia "starts", but I wasn't sure how to access it.
main.js:
aurelia.container.registerInstance(HttpClient, http.c());
// set your interceptors to take cookie data and put into header
return aurelia.start().then(() => {
let Authorizer = new AuthorizerService();
aurelia.container.registerInstance(AuthorizerService, Authorization);
console.log('Current State: %o', Authorizer.auth);
Authorizer.checkCookieAndPingServer().then(() => { console.log('Current State: %o', Authorizer.auth); aurelia.setRoot(PLATFORM.moduleName('app')); }, () => { aurelia.setRoot(PLATFORM.moduleName('login-redirect')); });
});
Now the problem is that if I do "new AuthorizerService()" then "this.http.fetch()" is not available in AuthorizerService.js.
Am I meant to pass "http.c()" (which delivers the HttpClient instance) as a parameter inside:
checkCookieAndPingServer(http.c())
or is there another way?
Can I delete "new AuthorizerService()" and just do (I made this up):
aurelia.container.getInstance(AuthorizerService);
Somehow FORCE it to do dependency-injection and retrieve the "registered Instance" of "http.c()"?
I can't just check cookie. I have to ping server for security and the server will set the cookie.
I think this is all sorts of wrong, because I need a global parameter that just is false by default, then it does the query to backend server and setsRoot accordingly. Perhaps only query backend in the "login page"? Okay but then I would need to do "setRoot(backtoApp); aurelia.AlsoSetLoggedIn(true);" inside login module. But when I setRoot(backtoApp) then it just starts all over again.
In other words, when setRoot(login); then setRoot(backToApp); <-- then AuthorizerService instance doesn't have its proper data set (such as loggedIn=true).
EDIT: Better Solution maybe:
main.js:
return aurelia.start().then(() => {
let Authorizer = aurelia.container.get(AuthorizerService);
let root = Authorizer.isAuthenticated() ? PLATFORM.moduleName('app') : PLATFORM.moduleName('login');
console.log('Current State: %o', Authorizer.auth);
aurelia.setRoot(root);
});
Authorizer.js
constructor(http) {
this.http = http;
this.auth = {
isAuthenticated: false,
user: {}
}
}
"this.auth" is no longer static. No longer "static auth = { isAuthenticated: false }" which was some example code I had found.
So now "auth" gets set inside "login" module. But this means the "login" module is displayed every single time the app loads briefly, before being redirected back to "setRoot(backToApp)"
If the class you want to get the instance is purely based on service classes and has no dependencies on some Aurelia plugins, it doesn't need to wait until Aurelia has started to safely invoke the container.
For your example:
aurelia.container.getInstance(AuthorizerService);
It can be
aurelia.container.get(AuthorizerService);
And you should not use new AuthorizerService(), as you have noticed in your question.
I have an Aurelia app using Aurelia Store. I'm having some trouble when using the #connectTo decorator in an Aurelia pipeline step.
I have added the following step to my config pipeline:
config.addPipelineStep('authorize', AuthorizeStep);
And this step looks like:
#connectTo()
export class AuthorizeStep {
state: State;
run(navigationInstruction, next) {
if (navigationInstruction.getAllInstructions().find(x => x.config.isAdmin))
{
if (!this.state.user.isAdmin) {
return next.cancel();
}
}
return next();
}
}
However, my state is always undefined. Looking at other parts of my project, I can see the state and user are being populated, but it seems like in this AuthorizeStep it doesn't seem to work.
I think this issue may be due to the fact that my AuthorizeStep doesn't have a bind lifecycle method, but if so, what can I do about this?
The maintainers of Aurelia responded (only after I raised an issue on their GitHub) here.
Basically, as the bind lifecycle does not exist within this class, the #connectTo decorator won't work. Instead, I will need to manually inject the Store and subscribing to the state.
I am just getting started with Durandal.js so excuse me for the silly quesstion...
When a user makes it's first request to the app it is asked to choose a 'profile kind', and I need it to be accessible to every other view model in the web site, I first though of creating this property in the shell viewmodel, but don't how to do it.
How is the best way to store data in a Session like mode in a Durandal SPA?
Thanks!
Create an amd module for what data you need to store.
Then just require that module as a dependency for whatever other modules that need it.
Sort of like this:
session module
define(function () {
return {
someVariable: 'value1',
someVariable2: 'value2'
}
})
some other module
define(['session'], function(session) {
return {
getValue1: function () {
return session.someVariable;
},
obs1: ko.observable(session.someVariable2)
}
})
EDIT**
AMD modules are there to not pollute the global namespace of the window object. But if you would rather not require your session as a dependency and just access it through a global variable then that is perfectly fine.
you can declare it in your shell.js if you would like and do something like:
define(function () {
window.session = { someVariable: 'value1', someVariable2: 'value2' };
})
then inside some other module you can access the session object like so:
define(function() {
return {
getValue1: function () {
return session.someVariable;
},
obs1: ko.observable(session.someVariable2)
}
})
This information will not be persisted between page refreshes.. its only in-memory.
If your looking to persist the session data I would not look into persisting any information on the client unless you planned on making your app an off-line application.
An offline application is an app that works even w/out internet access. But if your app requires that the user is always connected to the internet then I would just store the session data on the server. So, just use web services to persist the session data and retrieve it.
You can tie the session on the server to the client by using a cookie.
As an alternative to Evan's answer, which is definitively the correct AMD approach... have you considered using a global object for that purpose?
in main.js
window.myApp = {
prop1: 'value',
subOne: {
prop1: 'value'
}
...
}
That will allow you to access the global myApp object everywhere. I know that some people will consider that as global namespace pollution and in general a bad practice, but in a SPA project (where you control window) I'd consider this still a viable approach.