odax / Auth-Mini

JWT Authentication Mini

Topics:

• Authentication
• Express Middleware
• Mongoose Middleware
• Hashing Passwords
• Using JSON Web Tokens (JWTs)

Description

In this project we'll implement a full authentication workflow (register/login/logout/restrict endpoint) using Node.js, Express, MongoDB and JSON Web Tokens on the server and a React Web Application for the client.

Running the Project

• Run yarn install to download the dependencies.
• Ensure that you have an instance of mongod running in another terminal.

Instructions

• Implement authentication workflow using JSON Web Tokens.
• Implement GET to /api/users that should return a list of users only if the user is logged in.
• Implement a React client to test your API.