express-auth

Express authentication and authorization skeleton using passport, mongodb and bcrypt.

Getting started

First you need to have npm and Node.js installed. To install project dependencies use:

npm install

To start the server use:

npm start

*Note that if you have set the ENV variable PORT server will use the port that you set there. Otherwise server will be started at port: 3001

Endpoints

/api/auth/register - User registration. Method: POST

Request:

{
	"name":"Test",
	"email":"test@example.com",
	"password":"1234"
}

Response:

{
    "token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiI1YTBlYTJjZmIwNzc0ODIwNjA0MjZmMDUiLCJpYXQiOjE1MTA5MDg2MjMsImV4cCI6MTUxMDk5NTAyM30.X5XDB6_m1R9P87ErslknRs1qP6gVV815HyPLPRrKP8s"
}

/api/auth/login - User login. Method: POST

Request:

{
	"email":"test@example.com",
	"password":"1234"
}

Response:

{
    "token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiI1YTBlYTJjZmIwNzc0ODIwNjA0MjZmMDUiLCJpYXQiOjE1MTA5MDg2MjMsImV4cCI6MTUxMDk5NTAyM30.X5XDB6_m1R9P87ErslknRs1qP6gVV815HyPLPRrKP8s"
}

/api/auth/me - User details. Method: GET

Request:

Header:
authorization: <token>

Response:

{
    "_id": "5a0ea2cfb077482060426f05",
    "name": "Test",
    "email": "test@example.com",
    "password": null,
    "__v": 0
}

Built With

• Node.js
• Express
• bcrypt
• MongoDB - Move at the Speed of Your Data
• Passport - Passport is Express-compatible authentication middleware for Node.js.

Authors

• Petar Petrov - Initial work - Petrakus

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.