Script to register a new super user account in AAT v1.0.0

register-super.js

import path from 'path';
import { pathToFileURL } from 'url';
import { spawn } from 'child_process';
/**
 * Handles installing/removing the npm dependencies for this script
 */
function deps(command) {
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    let error = '';
    const npm = spawn(`npm ${command} prompts`, { shell: true })
    npm.stderr.on('data', d => error += d);
    npm.on('close', code => code === 0 ? resolve() : reject(error));
  });
}

async function registerSuperUser() {
  process.env.NODE_ENV = 'production';
  try {
    /**
     * Install dependency required by this script
     */
    await deps('install');
    /**
     * Get app instance
     */
    const { App } = await import(pathToFileURL(path.join(process.cwd(), 'node_modules', 'adapt-authoring-core', 'index.js')));
    process.env.ADAPT_AUTHORING_LOGGER__mute = true
    const app = await App.instance.onReady();
    /**
     * Check for existing super users
     */
    const [localauth, roles, users] = await app.waitForModule('localauth', 'roles', 'users');
    const superUserId = (await roles.find({ shortName: 'superuser' }))[0]._id.toString();
    const existing = await users.find({ roles: superUserId });
    if(existing.length) {
      throw new Error(`Super user accounts already exist: ${existing.map(u => u.email).join(', ')}. Please create further users in the UI.`);
    }
    /**
     * Get user input
     */
    const { default: prompts } = await import('prompts');
    const { email, password } = await prompts([{
      type: 'text',
      name: 'email',
      message: 'Enter an email address to be used as a login for the Super User account'
    }, {
      type: 'password',
      name: 'password',
      message: 'Enter a password for the Super User account'
    }]);
    await prompts([{
      type: 'password',
      name: 'passwordMatch',
      message: 'Please type the password again to confirm',
      validate: val => val !== password ? `Passwords don't match. Please try again` : true
    }]);
    /**
     * Save user to DB
     */
    const user = await localauth.register(Object.assign({}, { email, password }, {
      firstName: 'Super',
      lastName: 'User',
      roles: [superUserId]
    }));
    console.log(`Successfully registered ${user.email}`);
    
  } catch(e) {
    console.log(e);
  }
  /**
   * Remove dependency
   */
  await deps('remove');
  process.exit();
}

registerSuperUser();