Installation

npm install oauth2-implicit-flow --save

Usage

This package is intended to be used in the browser, with browserify.

var OAuth2 = require('oauth2-implicit-flow').default;

var service = new OAuth2.Service({
  name: "myService",
  redirectURI: "http://localhost/~myusername/callback",
  tokenURI: "http://localhost:9000/oauth/authorize",
  clientID: 123456789
});

The redirectURI configuration parameter should point to an html document that hosts the following script:

<script>
if (window.opener && typeof window.opener.triggerOAuth2Callback === "function") {
  window.opener.triggerOAuth2Callback(window.location.hash);
}
</script>

Once that's set up, you can call

service.authorize()

to prompt the user to authorize your app. (To request a specific scope, pass { scope: "requested_scope" } to this function.) A pop-up window will open with the configured tokenURI. On a successful authorization, the token will be stored in localStorage with a key unique to the service name & clientId. Thus, you'll be able to read it from localStorage on a page refresh without prompting the user for authorization again.

var OAuth2 = require('oauth2-implicit-flow').default;

var service = new OAuth2.Service({
  name: "myService",
  redirectURI: "http://localhost/~myusername/callback",
  tokenURI: "http://localhost:9000/oauth/authorize",
  clientID: 123456789
});

if (service.token && !service.token.expired) {
  // make some authorized requests
} else {
  service.authorize({ scope: "user.info" });
}

The service.authorize() function optionally takes success and error callbacks after the options argument, which will be called with the service's token object (in the case of success) or an error message (in the case of failure). You can use this to easily convert this function into a promise (using a promise library such as RSVP

var RSVP = require('rsvp');

function login() {
  return new RSVP.Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
    service.authorize({ scope: "user.login" }, resolve, reject);
  });
}

login().then(function(token) {
  // do some stuff that requires authorization
});

Once you have a token for a service, you can make authorized requests with it using a wrapper for jQuery.ajax().

// takes same options as jQuery.ajax() but automatically sets the Authorization
// header
var opts = { type: "GET" };
service.token.ajax('http://resource-server.com/resources/', opts); 

// convenient helper methods for different HTTP verbs. 
// function signature is the same as for jQuery.get(), i.e.,
// service.token.<verb>(url [, data] [, success] [, dataType ])
service.token.get('http://resource-server.com/resources/');
service.token.post('http://resource-server.com/resources/', { name: 'foo' });
service.token.patch('http://resource-server.com/resources/17', { name: 'foo'});
service.token.delete('http://resource-server.com/resources/17');

These methods will all return a jQuery.Deferred object, just like jQuery.ajax().

You have to check for token expiration yourself, and/or be prepared to handle 401 Unauthorized errors from the resource server.

if (service.token.expired) {
  alert('sorry, your access token has expired');
} else {
  service.token.get('http://resource-server.com/resources')
  .then(function(data) { alert('success!') })
  .fail(function(jqXHR) { alert('error!') });
}