CouchDB with Auth0

Question

Is it possible to use Auth0 with CouchDB or Cloudant? If so, does anyone know a tutorial, code sample or github project for examples?

This question was already asked in the Auth0-Forum (not by me) but with no response: https://auth0.com/forum/t/can-you-use-auth0-with-couchdb-or-cloudant/3127

In my special case i want to connect a Ionic 2 App with Auth0 to a CouchDB instance without a middle (API) layer.

Any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

There's the couch_jwt_auth plugin which allows users to authenticate via JWT tokens and hence allows this kind of scenario. There's even an example project on how to use it with pouchdb and Auth0, so guess this could be kind of useful for you.

I'm using the same plugin to authenticate users and it works flawlessly. I actually maintain a fork of it which allows JWT signature verification with asymmetric keys (RS256) - And yeah once I feel confident enough there'll be a pull request.