action-cable-react-jwt

Same as action-cable-react, but allows authenticating websockets using JWTs

Installation

Yarn:

``javascript
yarn add action-cable-react-jwt

`

npm:

`javascript
npm install action-cable-react-jwt

`

Usage

Import action-cable-react-jwt

`javascript
import ActionCable from 'action-cable-react-jwt.js';

// if you don't use ES6 then use
// const ActionCable = require('action-cable-react-jwt.js');

`

Creating an actioncable websocket

`javascript
let App = {};
App.cable = ActionCable.createConsumer("ws://cable.example.com", jwt) // place your jwt here

// you shall also use this.cable = ActionCable.createConsumer(...)
// to create the connection as soon as the view loads, place this in componentDidMount
`

Subscribing to a Channel for Receiving data

`javascript
this.subscription = App.cable.subscriptions.create({channel: "YourChannel"}, {
connected: function() { console.log("cable: connected") }, // onConnect
disconnected: function() { console.log("cable: disconnected") }, // onDisconnect
received: (data) => { console.log("cable received: ", data); } // OnReceive
}

`

Send data to a channel

`javascript
this.subscription.send('hello world')

`

Call a method on channel with arguments

`javascript
this.subscription.perform('method_name', arguments)

`

In your ApplicationCable::Connection class in Ruby add

`ruby

app/channels/application_cable/connection.rb

module ApplicationCable
class Connection < ActionCable::Connection::Base
identified_by :current_user

def connect
self.current_user = find_verified_user
end

private

def find_verified_user
begin
header_array = self.request.headers[:HTTP_SEC_WEBSOCKET_PROTOCOL].split(',')
token = header_array[header_array.length-1]
decoded_token = JWT.decode token, Rails.application.secrets.secret_key_base, true, { :algorithm => 'HS256' }
if (current_user = User.find((decoded_token[0])['sub']))
current_user
else
reject_unauthorized_connection
end
rescue
reject_unauthorized_connection
end
end

end
end
`

And in YourChannel.rb

`ruby

app/channels/you_channel.rb

class LocationChannel < ApplicationCable::Channel

# calls connect in client
def subscribed
stream_from 'location_user_' + current_user.id.to_s
end

# calls disconnect in client
def unsubscribed
# Any cleanup needed when channel is unsubscribed
end

# called when send is called in client
def receive(params)
print params[:data]
end

# called when perform is called in client
def method_name(params)
print params[:data]
end

end
`

Remove a subscription from cable

`javascript
App.cable.subscriptions.remove(this.subscription)

// Place this in componentWillUnmount to remove subscription on exiting app

`

Add a subscription to cable

`javascript
App.cable.subscriptions.add(this.subscription)

`

Querying url and jwt from cable

`javascript
console.log(App.cable.jwt);
console.log(App.cable.url);

`

Querying subscriptions and connection from cable

`javascript
console.log(App.cable.subscriptions);
console.log(App.cable.connection);

``

License

MIT

Copyright (c) 2017 Zeke

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