How to use .js passport and OpenID Connect with Azure AD

Question

I am looking for user authentication using OpenID Connect, Node.js, Passport.js vs Azure AD. Could you tell me any resources / documents and / or sample code?

I came across passport-openidconnect . Is this still an active module? do you know of any other module that i could use for this? If so, if you could give me some sample code that would be great!

Answer 1

There is a special passport module for Azure AD called passport-azure-ad

Configuration steps:

• Register your application (in Azure AD)
• Install all the required npm packages.

• Configure the application to use the passport-azure ad.

  3.a Setting passport strategy

  3.b Add methods to track registered users

  3.c Initialize the passport when loading the express engine

  3.d Add routes that will handle login / logff

• Use passport to issue sign-in and sign-out requests in Azure AD

Check out the white papers (including the sample) for the code for each of the following steps: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/active-directory-devquickstarts-openidconnect-nodejs/

Answer 2

The answer to your question is yes. There are several node.js modules that you can use to implement authentication through AAD.

• You can use the ADAL library for node.js, which makes it easy for node.js applications to authenticate in AAD to access protected AAD web resources. Please refer to https://github.com/AzureAD/azure-activedirectory-library-for-nodejs for details and sample code.
• You can use a third-party module, for example passport-azure-ad , refer to https://github.com/Azure-Samples/active-directory-node-webapp-openidconnect for a sample that implements the requirement using express and passport-azure-ad .

Any further worries, please feel free to let me know.