GuilhermeBalog / bcrypt-password

🔐 Simple API using the bcrypt hash function to encrypt user password.

Bcrypt Password

🔐 Simple API using the bcrypt hash function to encrypt user password.

Why?

As developers, we should not storage raw user passwords, for security reasons. Then, we need to encrypt the password before saving in a database, and for this purpose, bcrypt is a good option because you can't decrypt the result easily.

Requirements

To run this project locally, you need:

• Node.js
• Yarn

Running Locally

First, install the dependencies, typing in terminal:

yarn install

Then, build the project with the typescript compiler:

yarn tsc

And finally run the project with:

node dist/index.js
# > Server listening on port 3333

You can also run in development mode, watching the files in the src/ folder:

yarn dev

API Endpoints

Set the user password

Request:

// POST /user
{ "password": "strong-password1234" }

Response (don't send the encrypted passwords in real projects!):

{ "password": "$2a$10$RenSi6mFSfrMaSUaYIvE7OABT3OU6RxHHzNq20UQpSSJOgqmuZ9MO" }

Log in

Request:

// POST /login
{ "password": "strong-password1234" }

Response:

{ "success": true /*or false, if passwords not match*/ }