wasp-authentication-service

Deprecation Notice

WASP was deprecated on March 14th 2024, there will be no further dependency or security updates to this platform.

Authentication service for WASP. Handles the storage, retrieval and validation of tokens.

Getting started

wasp-authentication-service can be run in a similar way to most nodejs application. First install required dependencies using npm:

npm install

wasp-authentication-service depends on a postgresql database dependency which can be brought up locally using docker:

docker-compose up -d

Finally the database must be initialised with:

npx knex migrate:latest

And finally you can run the application in development mode with:

npm run dev

Or run tests with:

npm test

Environment Variables

wasp-authentication-service is configured primarily using environment variables as follows:

variable	required	default	description
LOG_LEVEL	N	info	Logging level. Valid values are [trace, debug, info, warn, error, fatal]
PORT	N	80	Port on which the service will listen
API_VERSION	N	package.json version	Official API version
JWT_SECRET	Y	-	Secret for validating JSON web-tokens
DB_HOST	Y	-	Hostname for the db
DB_PORT	N	5432	Port to connect to the db
DB_NAME	N	authentication	Name of the database to connect to
DB_USERNAME	Y	-	Username to connect to the database with
DB_PASSWORD	Y	-	Password to connect to the database with

Database structure

The structure of the database backing wasp-authentication-service can be found in docs/db.md