JSON Web Tokens API

This is an authentication, token encode & decode API that uses JWT technology and MongoDB data source.

Running the API

API serves over http://localhost:3000/ by default. Following commands starts up the server.
npm run dev OR yarn dev

API Configuration

This API uses two environment variables. MONGO_URI used as a MongoDB connection string. JWT_SECRET used as a secret key signature.

Add MONGO_URI & JWT_SECRET variables to your .env file by updating with your own keys.

MONGO_URI="mongodb://username:password@localhost/testDB?retryWrites=true&w=majority"
JWT_SECRET="abc123"

API Routing

API serves over POST and DELETE methods. Additional routing may be added as desired.

POST         /user/signUp        Add user data to data source   
POST         /user/authenticate  Generate token for given authentication information   
POST         /user/verify        Confirm given token is valid   
POST         /user/getUser       Decode given token and get user data    
DELETE       /user/delete        Delete the data source content (use with caution!) 

Example Request

• POST /user/signUp

Name:Ultimo   
Surname:Magnefiso   
Gender:Female   
DateOfBirth:01/01/1990   
Username:aa   
Password:bb   

• POST /user/authenticate

username:aa   
password:bb   

• POST /user/verify

token:addsadasd.hfghfghfg.sfdsdfsd   

• POST /user/getUser

token:addsadasd.hfghfghfg.sfdsdfsd