Express Authentication is a boilerplate for Express authentication using a form of 'access-tokens' but this should not be mistaken with OAuth2 as this does not contain refresh tokens and such. Once a token expires, they will need to login again.
You can actually keep users logged in by refreshing the access-token in the backend by checking if the session still exists but is just expired and if that's true then you can update the current access-token with a updated one and feed that to the client.
ExpressAuthentication uses a number of open source projects to work properly:
- Express - Backend server to host the API
- Prisma - ORM for SQL
- @Prisma/Client - Client for Prisma
- bcrypt - Secure Encryption
- cors - Cross-Origin Protection
- body-parser - Middleware to assist us reading requests in Express
- dotenv - Creates an easy way to access .env variables
- jsonwebtoken - Secure way of handling data exchange between users and servers such as authentication
ExpressAuthentication has been verified to work on Node.js v16.17+
Install the dependencies start the server
cd expressauthentication
npm iSetup the connection url for MySQL in .env and run the following command
npx prisma db pushStart Application
npm run startMIT