Express / Nodejs Starter with JWT authentication, SQLite database, Sequelize ORM, unit tests and basic tooling. Actively supported and versioned by AppSeed

• Node.js >= 6.x

Authentication is based on json web tokens. passport-jwt strategy is used to handle the email / password authentication. After a successful login the generated token is sent to the requester.

POST api/users/login
Host: localhost:3000
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "password": "demo"
}

POST api/users/signup
Host: localhost:3000
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "password": "demo",
    "name": "George",
    "surname": "Clooney"
}

• clone repo: git clone https://github.com/app-generator/nodejs-starter.git
• change directory to nodejs-starter:
• create a file named .env which should contain the following default setup:

SALT=35kj7waj3k5kja09jeoi21kn0pg13iuhlkn // used in password hashing
JWT_SECRET=secret        // used in JWT signing
SESSION_SECRET=secret    // used for session data
PORT=3000                // the port on which your server will be available on
SERVER_ADDRESS=127.0.0.1 // or 0.0.0.0 for all or other interface address you want to listen

• users are saved in file config/users.js

Install Modules

$ npm i
$ npm i nodemon -g 

Run

$ npm run start # classic start OR
$ npm run dev # with nodemon live update  

Runs the application with nodemon. Server is listening on Port 3000 by default. This can be overwritten by PORT constant in .env file.

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Nodejs Starter provided by AppSeed