Authentication - Service (Microservice)

Goal

Part of my Microservice architecture where I am creating standalone and reusable programmes. The Auth service is used to authenticate and grant a token by implementing local (email & password) and Google.

MVP - features

Current

• sign up new user
• create Token
• sign in existing user (normal + with Google)
• update user
• get user by token

Upcoming

• reset password and send email

Tech-stack

• Node / Express
• MongoDB / Mongoose
• Joi
• PassportJS (local, JWT, Google)

Setup

After downloading or cloning the repo, you need to follow this steps to have the development environment running :

1. Make sure that you have npm, node and mongodb installed
2. Run mongo server
3. Install dependencies : npm install
4. Create config/config.env and add the following keys and values: NODE_ENV=development PORT=5000 MONGO_URI= JWT_SECRET= GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID= GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET=
5. In the project directory, run the command npm run dev to start the development server with nodemon