FastifySession
Features
Session plugin for fastify that supports both stateless and sateful sessions.
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Requires @fastify/cookie to handle cookies.
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Works with fastify
^4.0.0starting from>=0.16.0. -
Can leverage crypto addons like @mgcrea/fastify-session-sodium-crypto to perform crypto.
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Can leverage store addons like:
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Built with TypeScript for static type checking with exported types along the library.
Install
npm install @mgcrea/fastify-session @fastify/cookie
# or
pnpm add @mgcrea/fastify-session @fastify/cookieQuickstart
Basic example (signed session with hmac stored in a volatile in-memory store)
Defaults to a volatile in-memory store for sessions (great for tests), with hmac for signature.
import createFastify, { FastifyInstance, FastifyServerOptions } from "fastify";
import fastifyCookie from "@fastify/cookie";
import fastifySession from "@mgcrea/fastify-session";
const SESSION_SECRET = "a secret with minimum length of 32 characters";
const SESSION_TTL = 86400; // 1 day in seconds
export const buildFastify = (options?: FastifyServerOptions): FastifyInstance => {
const fastify = createFastify(options);
fastify.register(fastifyCookie);
fastify.register(fastifySession, {
secret: SESSION_SECRET,
cookie: { maxAge: SESSION_TTL },
});
return fastify;
};Production example (signed session with sodium stored in redis)
For better performance/security, you can use the @mgcrea/fastify-session-sodium-crypto addon:
Leveraging an external redis store, the session id (generated with nanoid) is signed using a secret-key with libsodium's crytpo_auth
import createFastify, { FastifyInstance, FastifyServerOptions } from 'fastify';
import fastifyCookie from 'fastify-cookie';
import fastifySession from '@mgcrea/fastify-session';
import { SODIUM_AUTH } from '@mgcrea/fastify-session-sodium-crypto';
const SESSION_KEY = 'Egb/g4RUumlD2YhWYfeDlm5MddajSjGEBhm0OW+yo9s='';
const SESSION_TTL = 86400; // 1 day in seconds
const REDIS_URI = process.env.REDIS_URI || 'redis://localhost:6379/1';
export const buildFastify = (options?: FastifyServerOptions): FastifyInstance => {
const fastify = createFastify(options);
fastify.register(fastifyCookie);
fastify.register(fastifySession, {
key: Buffer.from(SESSION_KEY, 'base64'),
crypto: SODIUM_AUTH,
store: new RedisStore({ client: new Redis(REDIS_URI), ttl: SESSION_TTL }),
cookie: { maxAge: SESSION_TTL },
});
return fastify;
};Stateless example (encrypted session with sodium not using a store)
No external store required, the entire session data is encrypted using a secret-key with libsodium's crypto_secretbox_easy
Here we used a secret instead of providing a key, key derivation will happen automatically on startup.
import createFastify, { FastifyInstance, FastifyServerOptions } from "fastify";
import fastifyCookie from "fastify-cookie";
import fastifySession from "@mgcrea/fastify-session";
import { SODIUM_SECRETBOX } from "@mgcrea/fastify-session-sodium-crypto";
const SESSION_TTL = 86400; // 1 day in seconds
export const buildFastify = (options?: FastifyServerOptions): FastifyInstance => {
const fastify = createFastify(options);
fastify.register(fastifyCookie);
fastify.register(fastifySession, {
secret: "a secret with minimum length of 32 characters",
crypto: SODIUM_SECRETBOX,
cookie: { maxAge: SESSION_TTL },
});
return fastify;
};Benchmarks
Session crypto sealing
node --experimental-specifier-resolution=node --loader=ts-paths-esm-loader/transpile-only --no-warnings test/benchmark/cryptoSeal.tsSODIUM_SECRETBOX#sealJson x 333,747 ops/sec ±0.62% (91 runs sampled)
SODIUM_AUTH#sealJson x 376,300 ops/sec ±0.50% (89 runs sampled)
HMAC#sealJson x 264,292 ops/sec ±3.13% (85 runs sampled)
Fastest is SODIUM_AUTH#sealJsonSession crypto unsealing
node --experimental-specifier-resolution=node --loader=ts-paths-esm-loader/transpile-only --no-warnings test/benchmark/cryptoUnseal.tsSODIUM_SECRETBOX#unsealJson x 424,297 ops/sec ±0.69% (86 runs sampled)
SODIUM_AUTH#unsealJson x 314,736 ops/sec ±0.96% (89 runs sampled)
HMAC#unsealJson x 145,037 ops/sec ±5.67% (78 runs sampled)
Fastest is SODIUM_SECRETBOX#unsealJsonAuthors
Credits
Heavily inspired from
- fastify-secure-session by Matteo Collina
- fastify-session by Denis Fäcke
- express-session by Douglas Wilson
- cookie-signature by TJ Holowaychuk
License
The MIT License
Copyright (c) 2020 Olivier Louvignes <[email protected]>
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