This is the backend of Martyria, an application dedicated keeping the community encouraging one another with various testimonies. Here, a user is able to log in, post testimonies as well as view others. They will have the option to "like" as well as comment on another user's testimony they posted. It is a fast easy application ran on React on the front-end.
To run this project locally:
- Clone Repo
npm installin root directorynpm startto run nodemon in watch mode- Use postman to test endpoints
- User is able to register an account. Password is hashed and salted with bcrypt and is stored in database
- User enters credentials, server validates credentials. If valid, a random 16 byte token is generated and stored in databse along with the user ID of the requesting user.
- Protected endpoints send request through authentication middleware, which checks token received in request to exist in database and have a status of 'isAdmin'. The endpoints that use the authentication in this project are the GET/DELETE api/users/me and PUT api/users/logout.
- To logout, client would send request to api/users/logout with their auth token.
This will launch the Node server on port 3000. If that port is busy, you can set a different point in config/default.json.
-Open up your browser and head over to: -http://localhost:3000/api/users
-You should see the list of users. That confirms that you have set up everything successfully.