Creating an ACL Package
We recommend that you create a separate Node package to store your ACL permission rules. This allows the greatest re-use of your ACL rules in both the server and client.
The following instructions assume that you have a monolithic repository setup with Yarn Berry.
Create a new directory for your package, e.g. packages/acl/,
and initialize it as a Node package - with Yarn, run yarn init inside the new directory.
Update your package.json to look something like this:
package.json{
"name": "acl",
"version": "1.0.0",
"main": "./dist/index.js",
"scripts": {
"build": "tsc"
},
"devDependencies": {
"typescript": "^4.7.4"
}
}Add @casl/ability and @formulaic/acl:
yarn add @casl/ability@^5.4.4 @formulaic/aclFinally, create a tsconfig.json file - you may wish to just copy the file used by the Nest server.
tsconfig.json{
"compilerOptions": {
"module": "commonjs",
"declaration": true,
"removeComments": true,
"emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
"experimentalDecorators": true,
"allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true,
"target": "es2017",
"sourceMap": true,
"outDir": "./dist",
"incremental": true,
"skipLibCheck": true,
"strictNullChecks": false,
"noImplicitAny": false,
"strictBindCallApply": false,
"forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": false,
"noFallthroughCasesInSwitch": false
}
}