Sitter

A library for managing user registration, login, and the user's things.

Installation

Sitter is currently tightly coupled with the Neighbor application. To create the necessary schema, follow these directions: https://github.com/jeremyandrews/neighbor/blob/main/README.md#installation

Architecture

Sitter is inspired by the architecture of the Drupal 6 User module. It aims to provide a flexible and extensible mechanism for managing user registration, login, and permissions.

Notes

• decoupled; backend-only functionality for now (no forms/HTML);
• data and functionality exposed via a JSON api;
• replace uid with uuid;
• allow manually reserved names and email address;
• allow manual blocking of users;
• pluggable user registration;
• pluggable user login/validation;
• track when users log-in (logging and timestamp);
• hook_login;
• roles and permissions;
• test coverage;

Add-ons (used for blog series; proves out extensibility)

• two-factor authentication functionality;
• flood/throttling functionality;
• api tokens;
• JWT;

Research

• MySQL, PostgreSQL, and/or SQLite;
• customized user table/fields (ie, email only?);
• customized paths;
• passwords/bcrypt;
• actix, or agnostic server? (Rocket 0.5?);
• api versioning;
• ui: Vue.js?;
• email: email validation, password resets;