tcseley / mern-backend

MERN Backend Lesson

MERN Authentication Backend

This is a code along for MERN Auth

Notes:

1. Set up server
2. Test home route
3. Make api folder and test /test route
4. Set up models
5. Setup passport strategy
6. Intialize passport and pass passport as arguemnt to config
7. Make controllers for user
8. Test each one after completing it.
9. /test, /register, /login, /profile
10. Make route for each controller
11. Test other controllers in the box
12. Make template, add models and routes

What it includes

• Mongoose User schema and model
• Settings for the database
• Passport and passport-jwt for authentication
• JSON Web Token
• Passwords that are hashed with BCrypt

User Model

Column Name	Data Type	Notes
id	Integer	Serial Primary Key, Auto-generated
name	String	Must be provided
email	String	Must be unique / used for login
password	String	Stored as a hash
timesLoggedIn	Number	used to track the amount of times a user logs in
date	Date	Auto-generated
__v	Number	Auto-generated

Default Routes

Method	Path	Location	Purpose
GET	/	app.js	Server file
GET	/api/users/test	users.js	Return json data
POST	/api/users/login	users.js	Login data
POST	/api/users/signup	users.js	Signup data
GET	/api/users/profile	users.js	Profile data
GET	/api/users/all-users	users.js	Get all users