Get a full fake REST API with zero coding in less than 30 seconds (NodeJS + JSON Server + JSON Webtoken).

Support JWT Bearer authentication:

• Register user with username & password or email & password.

• Login with registered users.

• Protect API by resource and request methods.

Support upload files (beta).

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Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/robinhuy/fake-rest-api-nodejs.git

(or fork to your account and clone the forked repo)

Install dependencies

cd fake-rest-api-nodejs
npm install

Run server

npm start

or

npm run dev

The server will run on http://localhost:3000. Public API: http://localhost:3000/products (GET method).

All the data was placed in database.json. Edit it to suit your purpose.

You can use https://mockaroo.com/ to mock data, and publish your code to https://heroku.com/ to get a Public API.

Note:

• To protect resources, decleare resources and protected methods in database.json:

    "protected_resources": {
        "users": ["GET", "POST", "PUT", "PATCH", "DELETE"],
        "products": ["POST", "PUT", "PATCH", "DELETE"]
    }

• User can login by API /login, method POST, using username & password or email & password in resource users. Body request like this:

    {
        "email": "admin",
        "password": "admin"
    }

• Change default port, database file, jwt secret or jwt token expires in config.json.

Please view detailed document in https://github.com/typicode/json-server/blob/master/README.md#table-of-contents

If you want to change logic of authentication or add more feature, please edit file server.js.