seeden/rbac

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1005 stars · 102 forks observed · 2026-09-03

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Node.js library implementing hierarchical role-based access control (RBAC) with roles, permissions, and grant inheritance. It supports in-memory storage by default and custom storage backends via an extensible Storage class.

Use cases

• implement role-based access control in a nodejs app
• check if a user role can perform an action
• define hierarchical roles with inherited permissions
• manage user permissions and roles in an api
• add authorization middleware to express routes
• store rbac roles and grants in a custom database

When to choose

• you need hierarchical role inheritance in a Node.js application
• you want a lightweight, dependency-free RBAC library with pluggable storage
• you need simple permission checks like can(role, action, resource)

When to avoid

• you need attribute-based or policy-based access control (ABAC/ReBAC)
• you are not using Node.js or JavaScript
• you need built-in database adapters rather than writing your own storage layer

Facets

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authorization auth middleware security backend web-development developer-tools rbac role-based-access-control permissions hierarchical-roles access-control nodejs javascript

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