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Node Token Authentication

This repo uses JSON Web Tokens and the jsonwebtoken package to implement token based authentication on a simple Node.js API.

This is a starting point to demonstrate the method of authentication by verifying a token using Express route middleware.

Requirements

  • node and npm

Usage

  1. Clone the repo: git clone [email protected]:scotch-io/node-token-authentication
  2. Install dependencies: npm install
  3. Change SECRET in config.js
  4. Add your own MongoDB database to config.js
  5. Start the server: node server.js
  6. Create sample user by visiting: http://localhost:8080/setup

Once everything is set up, we can begin to use our app by creating and verifying tokens.

Getting a Token

Send a POST request to http://localhost:8080/api/authenticate with test user parameters as x-www-form-urlencoded.

  {
    name: 'Nick Cerminara',
    password: 'password'
  }

Verifying a Token and Listing Users

Send a GET request to http://localhost:8080/api/users with a header parameter of x-access-token and the token.

You can also send the token as a URL parameter: http://localhost:8080/api/users?token=YOUR_TOKEN_HERE

Or you can send the token as a POST parameter of token.

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