SimpleWebAuthn

• Overview
• Installation
• Documentation
• Sponsors
• Example
• Contributions
• Development

Overview

This project features two complimentary libraries to help reduce the amount of work needed to incorporate WebAuthn into a website. The following packages are maintained here:

• @simplewebauthn/server
• @simplewebauthn/browser

An additional package is also included that contains shared TypeScript definitions:

• @simplewebauthn/types

Installation

SimpleWebAuthn can be installed from NPM and JSR in Node LTS 20.x and higher, Deno v1.43 and higher projects, and other compatible runtimes (Cloudflare Workers, Bun, etc…)

See the packages’ READMEs for more specific installation information.

Documentation

In-depth documentation for this project is available at https://simplewebauthn.dev/docs

Sponsors

Thank you very much to those who sponsor my work. Your contributions help keep the open-source dream alive 🙇‍♂️

Interested in sponsoring this project? See here for more info: https://github.com/sponsors/MasterKale

🌟 Platinum Sponsor

Simple Authentication. Make login our problem. Not yours.

🏅 Gold Sponsor

Simple, drop-in passkeys and MFA as a Service

Example

For a practical guide to implementing these libraries, take a look at the example project. It includes a single-file Express server and a few HTML files that, combined with the packages in this repo, are close to all it takes to get up and running with WebAuthn.

Contributions

The SimpleWebAuthn project is not currently open to external contributions.

Please submit an Issue and fill out the provided template with as much information as possible if you have found a bug in need of fixing.

You can also submit an Issue to request new features, or to suggest changes to existing features.

Development

Install the following before proceeding:

• Deno v2.0.x

After pulling down the code, set up dependencies:

$> deno install

To run unit tests for all workspace packages, use the test series of scripts:

# Run an individual package's tests
$> cd packages/browser/ && deno task test
$> cd packages/server/ && deno task test

Tests can be run in watch mode with the test:watch series of scripts:

$> cd packages/browser/ && deno task test:watch
$> cd packages/server/ && deno task test:watch