Payload RBAC Plugin (BETA)

Needs more testing!

A plugin for Payload CMS to provide a baseline to help handle user roles and permissions.

Installation

  yarn add @nouance/payload-simple-rbac
  # OR
  npm i @nouance/payload-simple-rbac

How it works

On the face of it, this plugin only aims to get you up and started with some form of Role-Based Access Control.
You create an array of roles in order of priority with the latter being the most important, for example this means that an admin can do everything an editor can and more but an editor will be limited to their level of access.

Basic Usage

In the plugins array of your Payload config, call the plugin with options:

import { buildConfig } from "payload/config";
import payloadSimpleRBAC, { starterRoles } from "@nouance/payload-simple-rbac";

const config = buildConfig({
  // ... rest of my config
  plugins: [
    payloadSimpleRBAC({
      roles: starterRoles,
      users: [Users.slug],
      defaultRole: "editor", // set a default
      collections: [
        {
          slug: Posts.slug,
          permissions: {
            read: "publishedOnly",
            update: "editor",
            create: "editor",
            delete: "manager",
          },
        },
      ],
    }),
  ],
});

export default config;

Options

• Roles

  Array | Required

  An array of roles as strings in order of priority, roles at the end have a higher priority.

• users

  Array | Required

  An array of user slugs to attach the role field to.

• defaultRole

  String | Required

  Set the default role for users to have.

• fieldName

  String | Optional | Defaults to role

  Allows you to configure the machine name of the role field to avoid conflicts.

• collections

  Array | Optional

  Must contain the following

  • slug : String
  • permissions : read | update | create | delete

• globals

  Array | Optional

  Must contain the following

  • slug : String
  • permissions : read | update

Available permissions

• role

  This is your custom role name, any user with the same role or higher will pass this permission.

• publishedOnly

  Allow access only to published content, based on Payload's draft system. So your collection must have it enabled.

• public

  This allows full public access. The actual function is

  publicAccess = () => true;

Starter roles

import { starterRoles } from "@nouance/payload-simple-rbac";

// ...
  roles: starterRoles,
// ...

starterRoles is an array containing 3 roles, editor | manager | admin .

Functions

We've exposed our internal functions in case you want to use them in your own code or in combination with other access controls.

• hasRole

  Takes in your target role and full list of roles.

  read: hasRole("editor", myRoles);

• hasRoleField

  Takes in your target role and full list of roles. Specifically used for field access control.

  {
    name: "metadata",
    type: "json",
    access: {
      read: hasRoleField("admin", myRoles),
    },
  },

• publicAccess

  Anyone can pass this access control.

  read: publicAccess();

• publishedOnly

  Any logged in user can pass this access control, non-authenticated requests can only pass published checks. You can also pass an array of strings for auth collection slugs to limit the auth'd access only to a specific set of users.

  read: publishedOnly();

  // limited to 'user' collection slug, other auth collections will not pass
  read: publishedOnly(["user"]);

Full example

import { buildConfig } from "payload/config";
import payloadSimpleRBAC from "@nouance/payload-simple-rbac";

const config = buildConfig({
  plugins: [
    payloadSimpleRBAC({
      roles: ["customer", "editor", "manager", "admin"],
      users: [Users.slug],
      defaultRole: "customer",
      collections: [
        {
          slug: Posts.slug,
          permissions: {
            read: "publishedOnly",
            update: "editor",
            create: "editor",
            delete: "manager",
          },
        },
        {
          slug: Categories.slug,
          permissions: {
            read: "public",
          },
        },
        {
          slug: Tags.slug,
          permissions: {
            read: "publishedOnly",
            create: "manager",
            update: "manager",
            delete: "admin",
          },
        },
      ],
    }),
  ],
});

export default config;

Development

For development purposes, there is a full working example of how this plugin might be used in the demo of this repo:

git clone [email protected]:NouanceLabs/payload-simple-rbac.git \
  cd payload-simple-rbac && yarn \
  cd demo && yarn \
  cp .env.example .env \
  vim .env \ # add your creds to this file
  yarn dev