Express Auth

Express application to handle database session based authentication using homemade classes and middleware. Repo also contains brances for authentication using express-session and passport.js

It follows the clean architecture pattern so that the business logic is separated from the express application. And the database is abstracted so that it can be easily changed.

Technologies

• Node.js
• Express.js
• Typescript
• Mongoose
• Inversify - For dependency injection
• Node-cron - For scheduling tasks
• Winston - Logger

Pre-requisites

• Docker
• Docker-compose

Installation

1. Clone the repository
2. Run docker compose up -d to start the mongodb container and docker compose down to stop it

Makefile commands

make up to start the application make down to stop the application make redo to restart the application

Usage

1. Register a user by sending a POST request to api/user/register with the following payload:

{
  "email": "email@email.com",
  "password": "password"
}

2. Verify the user by sending a GET request to api/user/verify-email with the link received in the mock email that is printed in the apps terminal in Docker.

3. Login by sending a POST request to api/auth/login with the following payload:

{
  "email": "email@email.com",
  "password": "password"
}

4. Logout by sending a POST request to api/auth/logout

5. Get password reset token by sending a POST request to api/user/forgot-password with the following payload:

{
  "email": "email@email.com"
}

6. Reset password by sending a POST request to api/user/reset-password with the token received in the response from the forgot-password endpoint.

params: ?token=TOKEN body:

{
  "password": "password"
}

7. GET endpoint api/test is available to fetch the datas from the database.