everyauth

I'm trying to use everyauth to handle authentication for a rest api created with restify. But can't find a starting point. I'd expect to be doing something like: var restify = require('restify'); var everyauth = require('everyauth'); var server = restify.createServer(); server.use(everyauth.middleware()); but restify does not accept the everyauth middleware. How do I go about setting up restify and everyauth? The issue you are having is restify does not and current will not have a middleware layer. The below is from the author of restify I've thought about this quite a bit, and the thing that

I don't understand what everyauth promises are. I see that I need to return a promise object or user, but what is an everyauth promise? It's useful when you have a function that performs authentication, but which does so asynchronously. You can't directly return user information from the function (because you have to wait for the callback to fire), so instead you return a promise . This is a special object that acts as a "placeholder" for what will eventually be filled with user information when the asynchronous request does complete. Example from the documentation : function (session,

Everyauth and Passport.js seem to have very similar feature sets. What are some of the positive and negative comparisons between the two that would make me want to use one over the other? Chiming in with my two cents, as the developer of Passport . Before developing Passport, I evaluated everyauth and determined that it didn't meet my requirements. So, I set about implementing a different solution which would. The major points I wanted to address are: Idiomatic Node.js everyauth makes extensive use of promises, instead of Node's approach of using callbacks and closures. Promises are an