Loopback-next: How to use the reference authentication package?

[webmaster-ar]

Questions

I have been studying Loopback 4 for a few days. I want to create a production version, however I concern about that Loopback 4 authentication package is not production ready and it is just a reference. So I'm not sure how should we use that reference.
I have the following questions:

• Should we create a separate version based on that package?
• Is the package safe to base my security on it?
• Is that somethings are unfinished, but we can use the base?
• There is an approximate date to be ready for production or it will be always a reference?

[diegoazh]

I have the same questions. I need an authentication package, component or something else, but I not sure if this package will be finished. I would to contribute in the development of this component but I don't know if it will be a package for productiono or it will be always a reference.
have there some shcedule to work on it?

[dougal83]

If you follow the authentication label you can see the authentication issues and that includes labels that indicate the targeted delivery date namely 2019 Q3.

You can look at WIP repos under strongloop like https://github.com/strongloop/loopback-component-passport if you are interested but as auth. is in active development there is a high chance of breaking changes atm. I don't think it's considered production ready until the feature is documented at https://loopback.io/doc/en/lb4/ and is stated as such.

[jannyHou]

We ~are going to~ just released a new major version @loopback/[email protected], there are 3 related feature+blog stories team is actively working on:

https://github.com/strongloop/loopback-next/issues/2467
https://github.com/strongloop/loopback-next/issues/2311
https://github.com/strongloop/loopback-next/issues/2725(the blog will be published as a summary in the last step)

And @emonddr is refactoring the shopping cart example https://github.com/strongloop/loopback4-example-shopping/issues/79 to use the new auth system in @loopback/[email protected]

You can find more details in @dougal83 's update above (Thank you Daugal).

[jannyHou]

Self-assigned, I will update the tutorial here after finishing story #2467 and #2311

[gopalakrishnan-subramani]

+1, we need auth example as soon as possible to roll out basic integration with Authentication. We use lb4 for a project, we could not move further without authentication. Hope someone could give an example github example that can do hello world level authentication.

[samarpanB]

@gopalakrishnan-subramani you can take a look at this extension we created for the community members to help them with authentication in LB4 until it is complete and stable in loopback core. There is a boiler plate project also created using this package. You can refer to that for example.

[jannyHou]

FYI - The new docs are already available.

See:
https://loopback.io/doc/en/lb4/Loopback-component-authentication.html
https://loopback.io/doc/en/lb4/Authentication-Tutorial.html
Using passport based strategy: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@loopback/authentication-passport

I am closing this issue, feel free to reopen it if you still have questions :)