Express Authenticaiton using JWT

How to use

• Run this commands in terminal to install the dependencies

  npm install
  

• Create a .env file with following

  PORT=[number that you wish the server to run on]
  DB_URI=[mongo db URI]
  
  ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=[secret key to sign access token with]
  
  REFRESH_TOKEN_SECRET=[secret key to sign refresh token with]
  
  VERIFY_TOKEN_SECRET=[secret key to sign email verification token with]
  
  HOSTED_URL=[url where server is hosted on]
  
  MAIL_ID=[Gmail ID to send verification mails from]
  MAIL_PASSWORD=[Gmail app password]
  

• Add verifyToken function from resources/auth/auth.middleware.js as middleware for protected routes

Dependencies

• express - REST API Framework
• @hapi/joi - Input validation
• bcrypt - Password hashing
• cors - Enable CORS
• dotenv - Configuring environment variables
• jsonwebtoken - JWT Authorisation
• mongoose - MongoDB ODM
• nodemailer - Send email
• redis - Client to connect to redis server

Other dependencies

• Redis

  User objects are cached in redis store for 15min or until they've been verified

  Installation files can be found here:

  • https://redis.io/download

Scripts available

• To start development server

  npm run-script watch
  

• To compile a production build

  npm run-script build
  

• To compile and start the server

  npm run-script start
  

APIs available

• POST /api/auth/register

  • Headers content-type: application/json
  • Body

    {
        "email" : "test@example.com",
        "password" : "password",
        "name" : "testUser1"
    }  
    

  • Response

    {
         "msg": "Verification link has been sent to your email"
    }
    

  • Lifetime of access token is 5 min. Send the refresh token to get new access token

• POST /api/auth/login

  • Headers content-type: application/json
  • Body

    {
        "email" : "test@example.com",
        "password" : "password",
        "name" : "testUser1"
    }  
    

  • Response

    {
        "accessToken" : "access token",
        "refreshToken" : "refresh token"
    }
    

• POST /api/auth/logout

  • Headers content-type: application/json authorization : Bearer [ Token ]
  • Body

    None
    

  • Response
    • Status 204 on success 500 oterwise

• POST /api/auth/refresh

  • Headers content-type: application/json
  • Body

    {
        "token" : "User's refresh token"
    }  
    

  • Response

    {
        "accessToken": "new access token"
    }
    

• GET /api/auth/:verifyToken

  • Headers

    none
    

  • Body

    none
    

  • Response

    {
        "msg" : "account verified"
    }