Authenication - NodeJS, TypeScript

Description

This is a Bearer Token authentication API built with NodeJS, express and Typescript.
It has the following features

• User CRUD
• User Login
• Access and Refresh Token
• Authentication Middleware
• Password Recovery
• Sending emails via Nodemailer
• HTML template emails
• Postgres Sequelize

Table of contents

• Prerequisites
• Running Locally
• Acknowledgement
• License

Prerequisites

• NodeJS Installed

• Yarn Package Manager installed. Yarn can be installed using the command below:

npm install --global yarn

• PostgreSQL Installed

Setting-up-Local-Environment

Without Docker

Step 1

clone the repository and navigate to the project directory

git clone https://github.com/maxwellwachira/auth_nodejs_typescript.git
cd auth_nodejs_typescript/

Step 2

Check package.json file and ensure scripts are notated as below:

"scripts": {
    "build": "npx tsc",
    "start": "node dist/index.js",
    "dev": "concurrently \"npx tsc --watch\" \"nodemon -q dist/index.js\""
},

Step 3

Delete the node_modules folder and any 'lock' files such as yarn.lock or package-lock.json if present.

Step 4

Run yarn install to install project dependencies

yarn install

Step 5

final step

npm run dev

Acknowledgement

Special thanks to Nodemailer team

License