Using Everyauth/Express and Multiple Configurations?
- by Zane Claes
I'm successfully using Node.js + Express + Everyauth ( https://github.com/abelmartin/Express-And-Everyauth/blob/master/app.js ) to login to Facebook, Twitter, etc. from my application.
The problem I'm trying to wrap my head around is that Everyauth seems to be "configure and forget." I set up a single everyauth object and configure it to act as middleware for express, and then forget about it. For example, if I want to create a mobile Facebook login I do:
var app = express.createServer();
everyauth.facebook
.appId('AAAA')
.appSecret('BBBB')
.entryPath('/login/facebook')
.callbackPath('/callback/facebook')
.mobile(true); // mobile!
app.use(everyauth.middleware());
everyauth.helpExpress(app);
app.listen(8000);
Here's the problem:
Both mobile and non-mobile clients will connect to my server, and I don't know which is connecting until the connection is made. Even worse, I need to support multiple Facebook app IDs (and, again, I don't know which one I will want to use until the client connects and I partially parse the input). Because everyauth is a singleton which in configured once, I cannot see how to make these changes to the configuration based upon the request that is made.
What it seems like is that I need to create some sort of middleware which acts before the everyauth middleware to configure the everyauth object, such that everyauth subsequently uses the correct appId/appSecret/mobile parameters. I have no clue how to go about this...
Suggestions?
Here's the best idea I have so far, though it seems terrible:
Create an everyauth object for every possible configuration using a different entryPath for each...
