davedevx / nodejs-token-validation

Token creation and validation app in NodeJS (Express). Basic authentication with Passport.

Token creation and validation app in NodeJS (Express)

You can create / list / delete / validate tokens with this REST API in NodeJS / Express.

Tokens are stored in MongoDB, schemas are created with Mongoose.

Admin section and its endpoints are protected with a basic validation by Passport.

You can configure some app settings via .env

Templates built with pug.

Installation

If you have mongo in local (otherwise please install it), run the following command in terminal:

$ mongod

or with specified path

$ mongod --dbpath /path/to/mongo/data

Once mongo is connected, run the following command in a separate terminal:

$ git clone https://github.com/daveedx/nodejs-token-validation.git
$ cd nodejs-token-validation
$ yarn install
$ yarn start

or you can start it with watch mode

$ yarn watch

Usage

Open http://localhost:3000/. On this page you can validate your token(s).

Since you don't have any tokens, yet no admin users, go to http://localhost:3000/createuser/username/password, change username and password to your desired one, these will be your credentials to the admin.

Now head to http://localhost:3000/admin and login with your newly created credentials.

On the main page of the admin, if you click on the Generate button, a token (length is random between 6 and 12 chars) gets generated. A token gets expired in 7 days (default), but you can overwrite it in .env (TOKEN_EXPIRY_DAY), as well as the min (RAND_TOKEN_LENGTH_RANGE_MIN) and max (RAND_TOKEN_LENGTH_RANGE_MAX) length of a token.

You can check all the generated tokens (hash, created and expiry dates) at http://localhost:4000/admin/tokens. Also you are able to delete token(s) here.

Once you copied a generated token, you can check its validity at http://localhost:3000/ by pasting into the input and clicking the Validate button.