Login API with JWT authentication

A login RESTFul API that uses Node.js and the Express framework along with JWT for authentication

Features

• NodeJS
• Express
• MongoDB
• JWT

Requirements

• Node & Npm
• Git
• MongoDB Cluster
• Postman

Instalation

• git clone https://github.com/ThiagoBastosN/LoginRESTFulAPI.git
• cd loginrestfulapi
• npm install
• Inside .env, change DATABASE_URI to your cluster URI
• npm start
• You may also want to add .env to .gitignore

Routes

At http://localhost:3000/ you'll have some route options.

GET routes

• http://localhost:3000
  • /retrieveDb
  • /main
    • Requires authentication header and a token that comes in /login response, the format must be Bearer yourtoken

Notice that /main route requires authentication.

POST routes

• http://localhost:3000
  • /register
    • Body content: {"username": yourusername, "password": yourpassword}
  • /login
    • Body content: {"username": yourusername, "password": yourpassword}