empowernow-sdk 3.8.0

Comprehensive OAuth 2.1 / FAPI + AuthZEN PDP + FIPS client library

EmpowerNow SDK – Python & React packages

EmpowerNow provides a secure‐by‐default toolkit for building apps on top of the EmpowerNow Platform. The SDK is split into two families:

Package	Runtime	Purpose
empowernow-common	Python 3.10 – 3.12	Shared cryptography, OAuth helpers, AuthZEN PDP client, Redis/metrics utilities.
@empowernow/bff-auth-react	React 18	Hooks & components for the Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) cookie-based auth model.
@empowernow/ui	React 18	Headless UI-component library used by all EmpowerNow SPAs. (Depends on either @empowernow/bff-auth-react or the legacy shim @empowernow/react.)

Why no browser-side OAuth client? EmpowerNow moved to a BFF architecture to comply with FAPI 2.0 Baseline / Advanced and to keep tokens out of the browser. The legacy @empowernow/react library now acts as a thin re-export of @empowernow/bff-auth-react for backward compatibility. It no longer handles tokens.

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Installation

Python (server-side services)

pip install "empowernow-common>=2.3,<3"

Optional extras:

• empowernow-common[fips] – Use when running under an OpenSSL FIPS provider.
• empowernow-common[redis], empowernow-common[kafka], etc. – Feature-scoped extras, see pyproject.toml.

React (front-end SPAs)

npm install @empowernow/bff-auth-react @empowernow/ui

If you still have code importing @empowernow/react, update it at your own pace – the alias re-exports the new package so nothing breaks at runtime.

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Quick start

Using the Python OAuthClient

from empowernow_common.oauth import OAuthClient

oauth = OAuthClient(
    issuer="https://idp.example.com",
    client_id="python-client",
    client_secret="…",  # confidential client
    redirect_uri="https://bff.example.com/auth/callback",
    scopes=["openid", "profile"]
)

auth_url = oauth.create_authorization_url(state="xyz")
print("Open browser to", auth_url)

React – wrap your SPA in the AuthProvider

import { AuthProvider } from '@empowernow/bff-auth-react';
import { createRoot } from 'react-dom/client';
import App from './App';

createRoot(document.getElementById('root')!).render(
  <AuthProvider baseUrl={import.meta.env.VITE_BFF_BASE_URL}>
    <App />
  </AuthProvider>
);

useAuth() gives you isAuthenticated, user, session and convenience helpers like login() and logout(); apiClient is a fetch wrapper that automatically adds CSRF headers and credentials:"include".

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Security & Compliance

• FAPI 2.0 ready – private-key-JWT, PAR, JARM, DPoP and SameSite cookie model supported at the BFF layer.
• FIPS option – When the host OpenSSL runs in FIPS 140-3 mode, empowernow-common can validate algorithms at start-up and periodically (opt-in via env FIPS_CONTINUOUS_VALIDATION=1).
• No browser tokens – SPAs never see access- or refresh-tokens; they use HttpOnly cookies issued by the BFF.
• Structured logging & Prometheus metrics built in.

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Repository layout

client_sdk/empowernow-packages/
 ├── packages/
 │   ├── empowernow-common/            # Python package
 │   ├── @empowernow/bff-auth-react/   # React auth kit
 │   ├── @empowernow/ui/               # UI kit (optional peer)
 │   └── empowernow-react/             # Shim – re-exports BFF kit

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Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. Please run pre-commit run -a and ensure pytest -q / pnpm test are green before opening a PR.

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