Ultimate MERN Stack Authentication Boilerplate for production use

🚀 Demo

This application is deployed on DigitalOcean. Please check it out 😄 here.

🖥️ Tech Stack

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Backend:

     

Database:

 

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⚡️ Features

• Protected routes with Higher Order Components
• Login with forgot password feature.
• JWT protected APIs
• Passwords are encrypted.
• Image upload with Cloudinary
• Toast notifications for user actions.

📁 Project structure

├── client/
│   ├── public/
│   │   ├── favicon.ico
│   │   ├── index.html
│   │   ├── logo192.png
│   │   ├── logo512.png
│   │   ├── manifest.json
│   │   └── robots.txt
│   ├── src/
│   │   ├── assets/
│   │   │   ├── email.svg
│   │   │   ├── green_check.svg.json
│   │   │   ├── index.js
│   │   │   ├── logo.png
│   │   │   └── user.svg
│   │   ├── components/
│   │   │   ├── NavigationBar/
│   │   │   │   ├── NavigationBar.jsx
│   │   │   │   └── NavigationBar.css
│   │   │   ├── ProfileModal/
│   │   │   │   └── ProfileModal.jsx
│   │   │   └── index.js
│   │   ├── context/
│   │   │   └── AuthProvider.jsx
│   │   ├── Pages/
│   │   │   ├── ForgotPasswordPage/
│   │   │   │   ├── ForgotPasswordPage.css
│   │   │   │   └── ForgotPasswordPage.jsx
│   │   │   ├── HomePage/
│   │   │   │   ├── HomePage.css
│   │   │   │   └── HomePage.jsx
│   │   │   ├── LoginPage/
│   │   │   │   ├── LoginPage.css
│   │   │   │   └── LoginPage.jsx
│   │   │   ├── PasswordResetPage/
│   │   │   │   ├── PasswordResetPage.css
│   │   │   │   └── PasswordResetPage.jsx
│   │   │   ├── RegisterPage/
│   │   │   │   ├── RegisterPage.css
│   │   │   │   └── RegisterPage.jsx
│   │   │   └── index.js
│   │   ├── Utils/
│   │   │   ├── index.js
│   │   │   ├── notify.js
│   │   │   └── PrivateRoutes.jsx
│   │   ├── App.css
│   │   ├── App.jsx
│   │   └── index.js
│   ├── .env.example
│   ├── package-lock.json
│   └── package.json
├── config/
│   └── db.js
├── controllers/
│   ├── auth.js
│   └── private.js
├── middleware/
│   ├── auth.js
│   └── error.js
├── models/
│   └── User.js
├── routes/
│   ├── auth.js
│   └── private.js
├── utils/
│   ├── errorResponse.js
│   └── sendEmail.js
├── .env.example
├── .gitignore
├── LICENSE
├── package-lock.json
├── package.json
├── README.md
└── server.js

📖 Prerequisites

In order to run the project you need node>=16 and npm>=8 installed on your machine.

🚩 Getting Started

1. Clone the mern-stack-authentication-boilerplate repository:

git clone https://github.com/rtewari056/mern-stack-authentication-boilerplate.git

2. Navigate into repo:

cd mern-stack-authentication-boilerplate

3. Rename .env.example into .env and put all creadentials:

# In the root directory put your creadentials
APP_BASE_URL=http://localhost:3000
NODE_ENV=development
PORT=5000
MONGO_URI="YOUR_MONGO_CONNECTION_URL"
JWT_SECRET="YOUR_JWT_SECRET"
JWT_EXPIRE=24 # In hours
SMTP_HOST=<YOUR_SMTP_SERVER_HOST_NAME>
SMTP_PORT=587
SMTP_USER=<YOUR_SMTP_SERVER_USER_NAME>
SMTP_PASSWORD=<YOUR_SMTP_SERVER_PASSWORD>
EMAIL_FROM=<EMAIL_ADDRESS_OF_SENDER>

# Now go to client folder and put your cloudinary creadentials 
REACT_APP_CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME=<YOUR_CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME>
REACT_APP_CLOUDINARY_UPLOAD_PRESET=<YOUR_CLOUDINARY_UPLOAD_PRESET>

4. Install package dependencies:

npm install # Server dependencies
cd client
npm install # Client dependencies

4. Run project:

In the root directory, open two terminal sessions and run both commands separately:

npm run client
npm run server

5. Open your browser and go to http://localhost:3000

👤 Developer

Rohit Tewari

📬 Contact

If you want to contact me, you can reach me through below handles.

📃 License

MERN Stack Authentication Boilerplate is licensed under the MIT License.

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