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Authorization

Authorization controls what users can do within your application. The native package for this in AdonisJS is Bouncer, however, in this topic you can find manual approaches to authorization as well.

3 Series
14 Lessons
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Let's Learn AdonisJS 6

In this series, we'll learn AdonisJS 6 step-by-step in a beginner-friendly way. Covering topics like routing, controllers, services, EdgeJS, Lucid ORM, forms, filtering, authentication, etc.

113 Lessons
14h 15m

AdonisJS User Roles

In this series, we'll walk through the process of creating your own user role management system. In this system we'll be able to manage users, their roles, permissions, access to our application and more.

4 Lessons
1h 22m

AdonisJS Bouncer

In this series, we'll be introducing and covering AdonisJS Bouncer, AdonisJS' first-party authorization package.

4 Lessons
1h 4m
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API Authorization
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API Authorization Checks

In this lesson, we'll implement our API Authorization checks across all the API controller methods we've implemented thus far. We'll then create a specific access token for each operation (read, create, update, and delete) to ensure everything is working.

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Creating Access Tokens Part 1: AdonisJS
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Creating Access Tokens Part 1: AdonisJS

In this lesson, we'll add a route to the settings portion of our application allowing the user to create an opaque access token (OAT), with the desired permissions, for the active organization.

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Access Token Abilities
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Defining Access Token Abilities & DTO

In this lesson, we'll finish up our preparation work by creating a data transfer object (DTO) for our access tokens. Then, we'll define what our token abilities will be within our application's API.

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Separation of Concerns
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Separation of API & Web Auth Guard Concerns

In this lesson, we'll restrict our routes to their applicable authentication guard. Ensuring our web routes can properly authorize using their role-based authorization and our API can properly authorize using our access token abilities.

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UI Authorization Checks
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Applying Our Authorization UI Checks

In this lesson, we'll use our access controls to apply authorization checks to the user interface of our application. This will ensure users don't see actionable items for operations they aren't allowed to perform.

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Server-Side Authorization Checks
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Applying Our Server-Side Authorization Checks

In this lesson, we'll use our access controls to add authorization checks to our controllers where needed. This will help ensure members can't update, delete, or invite users.

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Authorization Access Controls
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Rolling Our Own Authorization Access Controls

In this lesson, we'll create our own simple authorization access control list. We'll then share this list globally throughout our application by appending it to our HttpContext and sharing it with our Vue application via Inertia.

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Protecting Routes with Auth, Guest, and Admin Middleware
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Protecting Routes with Auth, Guest, and Admin Middleware

In this lesson, we'll learn about the auth and guest middleware included when we created our AdonisJS 6 project. Then, we'll create our own named middleware that will allow us to restrict page access to only users with the admin role.

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Location from user IP address
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How To Get City and State Info from User’s IP Address using IP2Location

In this lesson, we'll learn how to get our user's city, region, and country location information using their IP address.