jruusu / auth0-spa-api-demo

Quick demo of a single page web app with Auth0 login, and Backend API call with bearer token authentication

auth0-spa-api-demo

Quick demo of a single page web app with

• Auth0 login
• Backend API call with bearer token authentication

Code in this repo is mostly based on Quick Start examples by Auth0.

Prerequisites

• Node.js 8.12
• The Heroku CLI

Initial setup

1. Set up an Auth0 account, domain, and application (type: Single Page App)
2. From the Auth0 console, stick the Domain as AUTH0_DOMAIN and Client ID as AUTH0_CLIENT_ID in your local .env file.
3. In Auth0 console, create an API. Select the RS256 Signing Algorithm. Stick your API Identifier as AUTH0_AUDIENCE in your local .env file.

Run it locally

heroku local web

Run it in Heroku

1. Create a heroku app; heroku create
2. Set AUTH0_DOMAIN, AUTH0_CLIENT_ID, and AUTH0_AUDIENCE as config vars. Instructions: Configuration and Config Vars
3. Deploy to Heroku with Git; git push heroku master