User Authentication

Alt-seven includes a built-in authentication mechanism that allows you to authenticate users against your back end server. Rather than using a custom authentication system, alt-seven uses HTTP Basic Authentication, sending an Authorization header with encoded username and password to the server via remote fetch. The framework sends back an X-Token response header that contains an encoded payload with the authenticated user’s information.

Because the authentication methods are included in the framework, all the programmer needs to do is configure the loginURL, logoutURL, and refreshURL in the application configuration, then call the auth.login event in the framework. The method then calls the specified loginURL and passes the username and password to the authentication URL. See more information in the authentication tutorial.

Authentication Tutorial