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Ember.SimpleAuth implements RFC 6749 (OAuth 2.0)

Update: Ember.SimpleAuth 0.1.0 has been released! The information in this is (partially) outdated.

With the release of Ember.SimpleAuth 0.0.4 the library is compliant with OAuth 2.0 - specifically it implements the "Resource Owner Password Credentials Grant Type" as defined in RFC 6749 (thanks adamlc for the suggestion). While this is only a minor change in terms of functionality and data flow, used headers etc. it makes everyone’s life a lot easier as instead of implementing your own server endpoints you can now utilize one of several OAuth 2.0 middlewares that already implement the spec.

Ember.SimpleAuth

Update: Ember.SimpleAuth 0.1.0 has been released! The information in this is (partially) outdated.

After I wrote 2 blog posts on implementing token based authentication in Ember.js applications and got quite some feedback, good suggestions etc., I thought it would be nice to pack all these ideas in an Ember.js plugin so everybody could easily integrate that into their applications. Now I finally managed to release version 0.0.1 of that plugin: Ember.SimpleAuth.

(better) Authentication in ember.js

Update:I released an Ember.js plugin that makes it very easy to implement an authentication system as described in this post: Ember.SimpleAuth.

When we started our first ember.js project in June 2013, one of the first things we implemented was authentication. Now, almost 2 months later, it has become clear that our initial approach was not really the best and had some shortcomings. So I implemented a better authentication (mostly based on the embercasts on authentication).

excellent 2.0.0

We just released excellent 2.0.0 which has some big improvements:

excellent 1.7.2

We just released excellent 1.7.2 which includes the following fixes:

Authentication in ember.js

Update:I released an Ember.js plugin that makes it very easy to implement an authentication system as described in this post: Ember.SimpleAuth.

Update: After I wrote this I found out that it’s actually not the best approach to implement authentication in Ember.js… There are some things missing and some other things can be done in a much simpler way. I wrote a summary of the (better) authentication mechanism we moved to.

I’m using the latest (as of mid June 2013) ember/ember-data/handlebars code directly from the respective github repositories in this example.