Access control

Access control in Alette Signal is the process of sending tokens or cookies along with request blueprint data, allowing the server to verify who the user is (authentication) and what the user is allowed to do (authorization).

Access control plugin

Access control plugin is a built-in Alette Signal plugin, used for managing authentication and authorization using tokens or cookies.

To activate Alette Signal access control plugin use the activatePlugins() api instruction:

api/baseAuth.ts

import { coreAuthPlugin } from "@alette/signal";

export const auth = coreAuthPlugin();
export const { token, cookie } = auth.use();

api/client.ts

import { client, activatePlugins } from "@alette/signal";
import { auth } from "./baseAuth.ts";

export const api = client(
    /*...*/
    activatePlugins(auth.plugin)
);