JWT Authentication in Express

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This project was made with the help of Web Dev Simplified.I used this video as Reference. Use this code in Production at your own risk

The Auth Server is used only for authentication and maintaining the users who are currently logged in. All other requests are handled by the content server (server.js).

I have a Postman collection of all the requests used in this project in the postman folder

How to run this project?

Prerequisites

1. Install Node.js
2. Install MongoDB

Getting started

git clone [email protected]:roshatron2/express-jwt-authentication.git

Install dependancies

npm i

Install Developer dependancies

npm i -D concurrently
npm i -D nodemon

Create a .env file in api folder

MONGOURI=<Paste your MongoDB Atlas URL>
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=<Secure Access Token Secret>
REFRESH_TOKEN_SECRET=<Secure Refresh Token Secret>
JWT_EXPIRE=<The durationf or which your Token will be valid>
CONTENT_SERVER_PORT=<Any free port>
AUTH_SERVER_PORT=<Any free port>

Start the Backend application

concurrently "node server.js" "node authServer.js"

Routes for Authorization Server

Route	HTTP verb	Description
/login	POST	Returns Acess Token and Refresh Token
/token	POST	Returns new Acess Token
/logout	DELETE	Logs the user out of the Auth server

Routes for Content Server

Route	HTTP verb	Description
/auth/signup	POST	Creates a user
/auth/me	GET	Returns Informationa about the user
/file/upload	POST	Uploads file to the server
/file/show	GET	Shows all the files uploaded by the user
/file/download/:fileId	GET	Downloads the file with the corresponding ID