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Getting started

Install the package in your global namespace and then run the command.

$ npm install -g @staffbase/create-staffbase-plugin
$ create-staffbase-plugin /home/user1/work/staffbase-server/ --name staffbase-sso-server

You can use yarn create to directly run the command. The syntax of yarn create staffbase-plugin is:

yarn create @staffbase/staffbase-plugin [Destination folder] --name [Plugin Name]

Example:

$ yarn create @staffbase/staffbase-plugin /home/user1/work/staffbase-server/ --name staffbase-sso-server

Interactive Mode

You can also run the command without passing any arguments to get into interactive mode which would ask you the name of your app and the path where it need to be installed.

$ create-staffbase-plugin

Please enter npm compatible name: (my-staffbase-backend)
Please enter the folder path for the App: (/private/tmp/staffbase/my-staffbase-backend)
The directory you specified already exists. It will be overridden!
Do you wish to proceed (y)es|(n)o?: (no)

Setting up your project in:  /private/tmp/staffbase/server
Installing dependencies...se/server

On entering the path, you can either specify an absolute path or a relative path. The relative path is resolved against the current working directory (process.cwd()).

Configuration

After the scaffolding is complete, you need to provide some values for configuring your plugin server. The following values need to be configured.

  • Plugin Secret
  • Plugin Audience

You can either specify these values in environment variables or directly passing the values in the app.js file where the middleware is initialized.

To configure values in app.js file, change the following lines:

app.js

12 ...
13 ...
14 const key = null;
15 const pluginID = null;
16 ...

You can also specify these values using environment variables. Refer to the table to see which environment variables can be used.

Value Environment Variable Default if not set
Secret STAFFBASE_SSO_SECRET (empty)
Audience STAFFBASE_SSO_AUDIENCE (empty)
Server Port PORT 3000
Server Address ADDRESS (empty, listening on all IP addresses)

Running the server

create-staffbase-plugin installs the project dependencies for you. After configurations is done, the only thing you need to do is navigate to the folder where your app was generated and start the express server.

$ cd [path of generated app]
$ npm start

License

Copyright 2017-2024 Staffbase GmbH.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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