NGINX proxy manager - setting headers to use basic auth in your apps

When I’m spinning up side projects, I frequently ignore auth, and just rely on NGINX basic auth - one of the side benefits of reverse-proxying everything.

Regular NGINX

This article in the docs explains how to set up basic auth to protect different paths. To make it work in my node apps, I need the successful user name passed in so I check it against the user table to work out access rights etc.