Yale SWE CAS Auth Example App

Overview

CAS stands for Central Authentication System. When creating apps for this course, you may find the need to authenticate students using Yale's CAS (ex. CourseTable). This example project uses Yale CAS to implement a simple sign-in/sign-out.

Running This App Locally

To run this app locally, there are some prerequisites:

• Node v16.14
• Yarn

Once you installed all the stuff above, follow these directions:

1. Run yarn install:all. This will install all of the necessary npm packages.
2. Open another terminal window and run yarn dev:server. This will run the REST API on port 4000.
3. Open another terminal window and run yarn dev:client. This wll serve the client on port 3000.

After completing the steps above, you should be able to go to http://localhost:3000 on your browser and see the app.

Acknowledgements

Quick thanks to the developers of CourseTable for making their fork of sadne/passport-cas open-source! If you want to see Yale CAS auth implementation in a production app, check out the CourseTable monorepo.