Demonstration of a paywall using expressjs

Running instruction

Development Mode

# install dependencies
yarn

# Run the server
yarn dev

# Start stripe local listener
stripe listen --forward-to localhost:8000/webhook

Environment variables

# Server settings
NODE_ENV=development
SERVER_PORT=8000
HOST=http://127.0.0.1:8000

RESEND_API_KEY=
MONGO_CONNECTION_URI="mongodb://root:toor@localhost:27017/paywall_demo?authSource=admin"

# Run the command `openssl rand -base64 60`
JWT_TOKEN_SECRET=
JWT_EXPIRE=1h

# Stripe API settings
STRIPE_SECRET_KEY=
# generated by stripe listen --forward-to localhost:8000/webhook (in test environment)
STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SECRET=whsec_...

Endpoints

method	endpoint	description
GET	/	test endpoint
POST	/signup	user registration
POST	/login	login user
GET	/account	get logged in user details
GET	/verify-account/:token	Email verification
PUT	/account/password	Reset password for authenticated user
GET	/account/credits	Get available credits
GET	/packages	Get available credit packages that can be bought
POST	/packages	Create a new credit package
POST	/packages/buy	Buy a credit package
GET	/packages/transactions	Get all credit purchase transactions
GET	/packages/transactions/:id	Get more information about a particular credit purchase transaction (TODO)
GET	/resources	Fetch all resources
POST	/resources	Create new resource
GET	/resources/:id	Fetch a particular resource. If it's a paid resource, resource data will be shown only if user has bought the resource
POST	/resources/:id/buy	Buy a resource
GET	/transactions	Fetch all resource transactions for a user
POST	/webhook	Stripe webhook endpoint