AzureAD/microsoft-authentication-library-for-js
Microsoft Authentication Library For Js
This project is an OAuth 2.0 client library and OpenID Connect SDK designed for integrating Microsoft identity platforms into JavaScript applications. It serves as a cross-platform authentication client for managing user identities and daemon services across browser-based and server-side environments.
The library provides tools for acquiring and managing JSON Web Tokens to secure access to protected web APIs. It supports various authentication flows, including single-page application authentication, server-side identity management in Node.js, and non-interactive authentication for background services.
Capabilities include the management of token caches with support for persistence and encryption. The toolkit also covers identity verification via corporate, personal, and social providers, as well as specialized flows such as device-code authentication and platform-broker integration.
Features
- Microsoft Entra ID Authentications - Provides deep integration with Microsoft Entra ID for user identity verification using OIDC protocols.
- JWT and Token Management - Offers utilities for acquiring, caching, and refreshing JSON Web Tokens to access protected resources.
- Access Token Acquisition - Provides mechanisms to request secure access tokens for calling protected resources and web APIs.
- Access Token Management - Provides tools for requesting, caching, and refreshing OAuth2 access tokens to secure API calls.
- Daemon Application Authentications - Enables background services to authenticate and access protected APIs without user interaction using client credentials.
- Client Credentials - Implements the OAuth 2.0 client credentials grant flow for non-interactive daemon application authentication.
- Daemon Application Authentications - Implements non-interactive authentication paths for daemon applications using application-level secrets.
- Azure AD Token Acquisitions - Provides specialized utilities for acquiring OAuth 2.0 tokens from Azure Active Directory.
- User Identity Verification - Verifies user identities through corporate, personal, and social identity providers.
- Identity Token Services - Implements industry-standard protocols for acquiring cryptographically signed identity tokens.
- OAuth Token Exchanges - Handles the exchange of credentials and refresh tokens for short-lived access tokens via standard OAuth flows.
- OAuth and OpenID Connect Libraries - Provides a comprehensive library for implementing OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect clients in JavaScript.
- Identity Providers - Integrates with diverse identity providers to handle authentication and session management via OAuth2 and OIDC.
- OIDC Client SDKs - Provides an SDK for verifying user identities and acquiring identity tokens via OpenID Connect protocols.
- Refresh Token Grants - Implements the refresh token grant flow to obtain new access tokens without user interaction.
- User Authentication Flows - Manages sign-in and identity verification flows for single-page and server-side web applications.
- Single Page App Auth Flows - Handles user logins and secure session management for browser-based applications using industry standard flows.
- Node.js Identity Management - Manages user authentication and secure token storage within Node.js environments for backend services.
- Credential Authentication - Implements client-side management for acquiring tokens using application-level credentials.
- Cross-Platform Auth Clients - Provides a consistent authentication client for managing sessions across browser and server-side JavaScript environments.
- Device Authentication Flows - Provides the device authorization grant flow for authenticating users on input-constrained devices.
- Pluggable Token Persistence - Offers a pluggable interface to persist authentication tokens in browser local storage or custom databases.
- Cache Encryption - Secures authentication tokens stored in browser caches using encryption to protect sensitive data.
- Authentication Token Caching - Provides local storage and caching of authentication tokens to maintain user sessions.
- Authentication and Authorization - Authenticates users via Microsoft services.
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