sgoldens / home_server

A solid and secure server using JavaScript Web Token (JWT) and bcrypt

home_server

An authentication and authorization server employing JavaScript Web Tokens instead of cookies, and bcrypt'd encrypted passwords.

To use this repository project:

1: clone the repo down into the project root directory

git clone [e-mail]:sgoldens/home_server
npm install

2: Open /config.js and uncomment the line for your secret key. Enter something unique and hard to guess as its value. Save and close.

3: Install MongoDB from their site https://www.mongodb.com/download-center?jmp=nav or homebrew if you're on macOS X:

brew update
brew install mongodb
mkdir -p /data/db

Other documentation here: https://docs.mongodb.com/master/tutorial/

4: Start the MongoDB server service, mongod

5: In the project root directory, start the server with the command npm run dev

6: Open your browser and navigate to http://localhost:8020/

Tech stack:

• MongoDB
• Mongoose (ORM)
• NodeJS
• ExpressJS
• morgan
• body-parser
• nodemon
• passport(jwt)