auth-nodejs-jwt

This project is a sample implementation of an authentication system that uses JSON Web Token (JWT). It is a REST API backend using nodejs, express and mongoDB as a database. The access token stored in the cookie.

Features

• Basic Authentication (Register/Login with hashed password).
• JWT Tokens.
• get user,delete user and update user information.
• Included CORS.

Project structure

/
│
├──── config/
│       └── database.js
├──── middleware/
│       └── Auth.js
├──── models/
│       └── User.js
├─── node_modules/
│   
├── routes/
│       ├── auth.js      
│       └── users.js 
├── .env                          * .env  file
├── .gitignore                    * git ignore file
├── index.js                      * Entry point of our Node's app
├── package.json                  * Defines our JavaScript dependencies
├── package-lock.json             * Defines our exact JavaScript dependencies tree
└── README.md 

APIs

Auth Route

Register

POST /api/auth/register

{
  username,
  email,
  password
}

Description: creates a new user.th Password is stored in hashed format

Login

POST /api/auth/login

{ email, password } Description: logs in to the server. jwt token will be stored in the cookie
so that user still have access to the token in a secure way even after refreshing the page

Logout

GET /api/auth/logout

Description: delete jwt token from the cookie

• you can find out the rest of the APIs while using the project

Project setup

Make sure you have the latest stable version of Node.js installed

How to use this code?

• Clone this repository

 git clone https://github.com/keynavas/auth-nodejs-jwt.git

or download repository as a ZIP file and uncompress it to your desired directory

• Navigate into the folder

cd auth-nodejs-jwt

• Install NPM dependencies

npm install

.env file

create .env file that contains:

  MONGO_URI=mongoDB_URI
  JWT_SECRET=jwt secret key
  PORT=5000

Run the server

node index.js

Or use nodemon for live-reload

 npm start