RESTful API using Node.js, Express, MongoDB.

A RESTful API created using Node.js, Express, MongoDB along with bcryptjs and jsonwebtoken to implement security features for hashing and authenticaion.

Getting Started

Download the zip file or clone using git clone https://github.com/gpavankv/restful-api.git.

Prerequisites

Just run npm install in your command prompt or terminal

$user npm install

or

folder\AnotherFolder> npm install

Run App

Use commands npm run start or nodemon to run the app. For now there are only three routes.

1. Basic test route make a get request to http://localhost:3050/api/test, the server will return a message.

{
    "message": "Test Successful!"
}

2. A POST request to http://localhost:3050/api/createuser with

{
    "firstName": "John",
    "lastName": "Doe",
    "email":"john@doe.com",
    "password": "johndoe123"
}

as body of the request, the server will return a message

{
    "message": "User created"
}

and the mongodb users collection should have some thing like this

{
    "_id" : ObjectId("5a53096475c0fa5c78858427"),
    "firstName" : "John",
    "lastName" : "Doe",
    "email" : "john@doe.com",
    "password" : "$2a$16$fRSD9aXXSzhc9dQl5JUIB.RG8aV1bIk6sG8HLwYTCdjHS.scBq16i",
    "__v" : 0
}

3. A POST request to http://localhost:3050/api/verifyuser with

{
    "email":"john@doe.com",
    "password": "johndoe123"
}

as body of the request, the server will return a message

{
    "message": "John Doe",
    "token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ1c2VyIjp7Il9pZCI6IjVhNTNkMWVkNmNkM2ZmMjBmMDM5MjM0MSIsImZpcnN0TmFtZSI6IkpvaG4iLCJsYXN0TmFtZSI6IkRvZSIsImVtYWlsIjoiam9obkBkb2UuY29tIiwicGFzc3dvcmQiOiIkMmEkMTYkOG85LlY1aC9iQmRoUS9IclhFNXhLdVAwcjk4MzJyRlBpU01oY2VWUE9EZFRzTmVGenE5LlciLCJfX3YiOjB9LCJpYXQiOjE1MTU0NDI3MDV9.G3odkBj9sCxftx2QFKLym3m_pTSQ7ejVcp6uE__Zx7c"
}

and from here on you can persist this token and use it for subsequent requests.

Running the tests

npm run test

Authors

• Pavan Kumar

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Acknowledgments

• Stephen Grider for his course on MongoDB, file structure and some app components have been taken from his muber app.
• Referred some videos on authenication from Traversy Media.
• Maximilian Schwarzmuller for his courses on MEAN stack and Angular 5.