NodeJS User Auth

NodeJS user auth app with sessions and JWT based authentication using Express, PassportJS and MongoDB.

🚀 Quick start

• Install the dependencies

  Use NodeJS v12.16.2 and install all the dependencies

  # (Optional) If you are using nvm, use
  nvm use 12.16.2
  
  # Install dependencies
  npm i

• Add environment variables in dev.js

  Create the development environment variables file .env.development as following in .env.example:

  NODE_ENV=
  MONGO_URI=
  SESSIONS_SECRET=
  JWT_SECRET_KEY=
  ...
  

• Run the development server

  You can start your development server either in session or JWT based authentication as following:

  # For session-based authentication
  npm run dev:session
  
  # For JWT-based authentication
  npm run dev:jwt

• Browse

  By default, the server will run on localhost:3000

🏃‍♂️ Running Scripts

Running different scripts by using npm run <script>

npm run <script>	Description
start:session	Run session-based authentication prod server
start:jwt	Run JWT-based authentication prod server
dev:session	Run session-based authentication dev server
dev:jwt	Run JWT-based authentication dev server
lint	Lint all files

🧐 What's inside?

A top-level view of files and directories of the application's folder structure.

.
├── .vscode
├── .gitignore
├── .prettierrc
├── .prettierignore
├── .eslintignore
├── .eslintrc.json
├── .nvmrc
├── config
├── helpers
├── middlewares
├── models
├── routes
├── services
├── app-jwt.js
├── app.js
├── package-lock.json
├── package.json
└── README.md

🐳 Using with Docker

Running the containers

# For development
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.dev.yml up -d

# For production
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.prod.yml up -d

Stopping the containers

# For development
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.dev.yml down

# For production
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.prod.yml down

Environment variables

Environment variables for MONGO_URI will be slightly differnt for running the web-app with and without using docker.

It is recommended to use MongoDB IP address as mongo inside the docker container.

Using docker

MONGO_URI=mongodb://mongo:27017/your-db-name
...

Without docker

MONGO_URI=mongodb://X.X.X.X:27017/your-db-name
...