auth-jwt's Introduction

Auth-JWT

This project is given to you for the benefit of using a previously implemented JWT authentication structure for you.

To get started be sure to follow the regular steps:

npm install to get all the dependencies.
mongod to start your mongo instance.
npm start to run nodemon over the server file. The three endpoints that are included are:

Take a tour of this repository. Get familiar with the chosen file structure. Notice we have a few directories here. controllers models routes and services. You can think of each of those this way.

controllers - the code that interfaces between our routes and

`[POST] /api/users`

Takes a username and password in the request body and creates a user to save to the DB.

`[POST] /api/login`

Requires username and password to be sent up to the request body. If the user exists, and the password is correct the result should be a shiny JWT.

{
    "token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ1c2VybmFtZSI6InJ5YW5Acnlhbi5jb20iLCJpYXQiOjE1MTYyOTQ1NzMsImV4cCI6MTUxNjI5ODE3M30.Uv4Sr-wNIRQx_P977NG6HGCktuDHsAdu3o_sjqRP71k"
}

This will be the token you need to send up to [GET] /api/users

`[GET] /api/users`

Requires a valid JWT token to be sent in the Authorization header. An example could look like this:

headers: {
 Authorization: "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ1c2VybmFtZSI6InJ5YW5Acnlhbi5jb20iLCJpYXQiOjE1MTYyOTQ1NzMsImV4cCI6MTUxNjI5ODE3M30.Uv4Sr-wNIRQx_P977NG6HGCktuDHsAdu3o_sjqRP71k"
}

Notice you'll be sending this up to the server on the header. Eventually we could write a mechanism into our server to accept this via header, query string or req.body.
If your token is valid, you'll get a list of the sent back that are in the system.

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