A simple, stateful session management library for Go with CSRF protection and easy session revocation.
Jeff is a Go library for managing web login sessions with a focus on simplicity and security. It provides session creation, authentication middleware, and revocation capabilities using a stateful backend approach rather than encrypted cookies. The library solves the problem of complex session management in Go by offering a minimal API that handles common authentication patterns while enabling easy session revocation.
Go developers building web applications who need straightforward session management with CSRF protection and the ability to revoke sessions easily. Particularly suitable for those who prefer stateful session backends over encrypted cookie approaches.
Developers choose Jeff for its minimal, idiomatic Go API that reduces complexity compared to larger session libraries. Its stateful backend design eliminates the need for a single ultra-secret encryption key and makes session revocation straightforward, addressing security concerns present in encrypted cookie approaches.
🍍Jeff provides the simplest way to manage web sessions in Go.
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Offers only three primary methods (Set, Wrap, Clear) for session management, reducing complexity compared to larger libraries like gorilla/sessions.
Uses a backend store to avoid the single secret key risk of encrypted cookies and enables easy session revocation, as highlighted in the security section.
Implements SameSite cookie attributes to limit cross-origin requests, providing basic CSRF protection without additional configuration.
Provides Wrap and Public middleware handlers for route security and integrates with Go's context package for request-scoped sessions.
Admits inherent race conditions in session read-modify-write operations, which can lead to session loss or conflicts under high concurrency, as noted in the limitations.
Explicitly excludes flash sessions, requiring developers to implement this feature separately if needed for temporary message passing.
Requires a stateful backend like Redis, adding setup overhead and potential scalability constraints compared to stateless cookie-based approaches.