nuxt-auth-app1

Implementing Authentication in a Nuxt.js App using mevn-auth-api.

Spinning up a quick API

To save ourselves some time, we'll clone an API, which I have put together for this repo. For detailed explanation on how to setup the api, check out mevn-auth-api repo.

Once all setup is done, we can start the API:

# launch API server
$ npm run start

Run this Nuxt auth app

Once the API is up and running, we need to clone & install the dependencies for this app and then launch the app

# clone the app
git clone https://github.com/palashmon/nuxt-auth-app1.git
cd nuxt-auth-app1

# install dependencies
$ npm install

# serve with hot reload at localhost:3002
$ npm run dev

For detailed explanation on how things work, check out Nuxt.js docs.

Logic Implemented

• Home page /, register page /register and login page /login are public, anyone can view it.
• Only My profile page /profile is private, only logged in user can view it.
• If not logged in and user tries to go to /profile, they will be redirected to /login page automatically.
• If already logged in and user tries to go to /register or /login pages, they will be redirected to home / page automatically.
• Implemented the logic to check for the inactivity of the user in our app. If the user is inactive for a period of time, then we automatically log out the user or show a timer first. We can update the timeout value for IDLE_TIMEOUT in .env file. Right now it set to 30 minutes. So, after 30 minutes a modal will open letting the user know that "Your session is about to expire in 60 seconds"
• Added client-side form validation using Vuelidate plugin.