karthikvt26 / simple-auth

A simple auth application which mocks cookie/token based authentication

Simple Auth using Tokens

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 [e-mail]:karthikvt26/simple-auth
2. Install dependencies: npm install
3. Change SECRET in config.js
4. Start the server: node server.js

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/generate_token.

curl -X POST \
			 http://localhost:8080/api/generate_token \
			 -H 'cache-control: no-cache' \
			 -H 'content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
			 -H 'postman-token: 2008fb51-80ed-5d4d-0845-c90cc07340fc'

The response of the above request will be as follows

{
  "success": true,
  "message": "Enjoy your token!",
  "token": "<token>"
}

Validating user tokens

Send a GET request to http://localhost:8080/api/check_token.

curl -X GET \
       http://localhost:8080/api/check_token \
       -H 'cache-control: no-cache' \
       -H 'x-access-token: <token>'

Response:

{
  "username": {
    "name": "testuser1"
  },
    "iat": 1524037294,
    "exp": 1524123694
}