A stateless and scalable RESTful Api utilizing JWT authorization, MongoDB, Docker deployment, HaProxy loadbalancing, and more.
I created this initially as a learning platform to pick up JWT and stateless authentication however because of how useful it eventually became i decided to post it on a repo to share as a scalable JWT example/boilerplate in express. Do note this should not be used in production as it does not support TLS and a few other things. This is soley an example of JWT in action on an express API.
- Stateless authentication with JWT allowing for easy horizontal scaling
- Docker containerization for easy deployment of the full system
- HaProxy loadbalancing for a simple load balancer for our api cluster
- Clean and effective code following StandardJS
- MongoDB Databasing
Config located in /Rest-Api/src/settings/settings.json. (Storing sensative info in a .env is preferable, for this example i keep everything in a json file)
Setting ignored_routes are all the routes which dont require authentication (public).
To authenticate client must pass provided Bearer token in the header and decoded payload will be on the request object. See more here
GET /
GET /healthcheck
GET /auth
POST /auth/register
body form data:
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username<String>- Must be 3-32 characters -
password<String>- Must be 5-100 characters
Returns Success OR Error
POST /auth/login
body form data:
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username<String>- Must be 3-32 characters -
password<String>- Must be 5-100 characters
Returns Success (Including AUTH<Bearer> Token) OR Error
- MongoDB (Required)
- HaProxy (Optional)
- Docker & Docker-Compose (Optional)
