pouchdb-users

PouchDB plugin to simulate CouchDB’s _users database behavior

pouchdb-users hashes passwords and ensures doc formats as CouchDB does it with its _users database, so that any database and leveldown adapter can be used besides CouchDB for persisting user accounts.

Example

var PouchDB = require('pouchdb')
PouchDB.plugin(require('pouchdb-users'))

var db = new PouchDB('my-users', { db: require('memdown') })

db.installUsersBehavior()
  .then(function () {
    return db.put({
      _id: 'org.couchdb.user:test',
      type: 'user',
      name: 'test',
      password: 'secret'
    })
  })
  .then(function () {
    return db.get('org.couchdb.user:test')
  })
  .then(function (doc) {
    // doc looks like this:
    // {
    //    "_id": "org.couchdb.user:test",
    //    "_rev": "1-e7172e5a925427378af944674c1c95d0",
    //    "password_scheme": "pbkdf2",
    //    "iterations": 10,
    //    "type": "user",
    //    "name": "test",
    //    "roles": [],
    //    "derived_key": "a13593349e8838c2349a463e570be80a1064cc4a",
    //    "salt": "9c9e3161c6b71455af35e80eb1152db0"
    // }
  })

The above example works the same against a couchdb

var db = new PouchDB('http://localhost:5984/_users', {
  auth: {
    username: 'admin',
    password: 'secret'
  }
})

db.installUsersBehavior()
  .then(function () {
    return db.put({
      _id: 'org.couchdb.user:test',
      type: 'user',
      name: 'test',
      password: 'secret'
    })
  })

How it works

pouchdb-users does not add any additional methods to db, but hooks into db.put, db.post and db.bulkDocs to modify the document before storing it in the database.

Note that pouchdb-users does not implement any access restrictions, there is no user context available in PouchDB.

Testing

Local setup

git clone git@github.com:hoodiehq/pouchdb-users.git
cd pouchdb-users
npm install

Run all tests and code style checks

npm test

Run specific tests only

node tests/specs/debug.js # run .debug() unit tests

PROTIP™: pipe output through a pretty reporter

License

Apache-2.0