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https://github.com/thangchung/bff-auth

The demonstration of modern authentication using BFF pattern and authorization enforcer using OPA
https://github.com/thangchung/bff-auth

authentication bff-microservice dotnet golang identityserver4 nextjs opa reverse-proxy rust

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The demonstration of modern authentication using BFF pattern and authorization enforcer using OPA

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# Why BFF for Authentication?

TODO

# When to use BFF Auth with Cookies-based
- Used:
- Cookies (Same site) and move the authentication to the trusted backend
- Use a dedicated backend for SPA now and move the security to the trusted backend
- Azure does not support introspection or the revocation endpoint so you cannot invalidate the tokens, or logout an Azure SPA fully. BFF removes this problem
- Not used:
- High load apps or cross domain with high load
- In this case, please use tokens, but it has a risk of tokens to be robbed in the client-side

# Get starting

- Start frontend

```bash
# Start front-end
> cd frontend/bff-auth-nextjs
> yarn dev
```

- Start backend

```bash
# Start auth-server, BFF server, and sale-api
> tye run
```

- Go to `https://localhost:8080`, and start to play with it

![](assets/auth_flow.gif)

# High level architecture

![](assets/overview.png)

# Hosts and Services


No.
Name
Technical Stacks
URI


1
Gateway (BFF Auth)
.NET 6 (YARP)
https://localhost:8080


2
Duende.IdentityServer
.NET 6
https://localhost:5001


3
Product API
Rust (Axum, Tower, Hyper, Tokio)
http://localhost:5003


4
Sale API
Golang (fiber)
http://localhost:5004


5
Ship API (TODO)
.NET 6
http://localhost:5005


5
Web
Nextjs
http://localhost:3000

# References
- RFC-8693: https://github.com/RockSolidKnowledge/TokenExchange
- https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-oauth-browser-based-apps-08
- https://github.com/manfredsteyer/yarp-auth-proxy
- https://developer.okta.com/blog/2021/01/04/offline-jwt-validation-with-go