Authentication Backend

An authentication and authorization backend server build using Express in NodeJS and uses MongoDB to store user dabtabase.

Features

• user can signup
• user can login and get their JWT token to authorized themselves
• verify JWT token (authozrization)
• uses Adapter pattern to switched between storage and database
• build on MVC architecture

Additional Features

• can be scale to microservice architecture easily
• can be used by any other service to authenticate and for authorization
• hosted on heroku platform

Downloading and Running this Project Locally

1. clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/altafshaikh/nodejs-authentication-backend.git

2. add a .env file inside the root folder

PORT=3001
JWT_SECRET=any random string
LOCAL_DB_URL=your local mongo url
DATABASE_URL=your_atlas_db_url(keep this empty is ur not provoding any url)
DEBUG=true   // set true to use local db and false to use atlas
STORAGE=mongodb  // to switch file storage or mongodb database (mongodb | file)

Sample for local

PORT=3001
JWT_SECRET=RawSshCaaafuiokld
LOCAL_DB_URL=mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/auth
DATABASE_URL=
DEBUG=true  // set true to use local db and false to use atlas
STORAGE=mongodb

Supported Routes

/signup : (method:post) - create user accout

/login : (method:post) - get jwt token and authenticate yourself using the creds (email,password)

/auth : to restrict the user from accessing the resources on route /blogs so send token in authorization header as bearer token

Deployment

To Host the Project I had used Heroku Platform. To learn more refer this gist

References

• mongoose quick start
• mongoDB documentation reference
• uniquid to generate unique ids
• npm express
• CORS module to talk between cross-origin resources
• jwt intoduction
• Adapter Design Pattern

Author

• Altaf Shaikh - work by - altafshaikh

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details