Backend
HTTP
This part of the project follows:
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NodeJS: NodeJS is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.
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ExpressJS: Express is a minimal and flexible Node.js web application framework that provides a robust set of features for web and mobile applcations.
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Mongoose: Elegant mongodb object modeling for node.js. Mongoose provides a straight-forward, schema-based solution to model your application data.
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Nodemon: Nodemon is a utility that will monitor for any changes in your source and automatically restart your server.
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PassportJS: Passport is authenctication middleware for Node.js. Extremely flexible and modular, Passport can be unobtrusively dropped in to any Express-based web applcation. A comprehensive set of strategies support authentication using a username and password, Facebook, Twitter, and more.
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Morgan: Morgan is a great logging tool that anyone who works with HTTP servers in Node.js should learn to use. Morgan is a middleware that allows us to easily log request, errors, and more to the console. It´s easy to use, but still powerful and customizable.
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Dotenv: Dotenv is a zerp-dependency module that loads environment baribales from a
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JWT: JSON Web Token (JWT) is an open standard (RFC 7519) that defines a compact and self-contained way for securely transmitting information between parties as a JSON object.
Usage JWT
As early as possible in the application, require and authenticate JWT.
jwt.sign(payload, privateKey, {options})
Payload be an object literal, buffer or string representing valid JSON.
privateKey is a string, buffer, or object containing either the secret for HMAC algorithms or the PEM encoded key.
options:
algorithm: (default: HS256)expiresIn: expressed in seconds or a string describing a time span zeit/ms.
Ex: 60, "2 days", "10h", "7d".