- Demonstrates how to use auth token to Node.js with Passport.js and jwt-simple which is useful for building a token-based REST API.
git clone [email protected]:roblevintennis/passport-api-tokens.git
cd passport-api-tokens
npm install
git submodule init && git submodule update
npm install -g mongodb
You need to fire up mongodb in another tab and then start the node server:
mongod #in another terminal tab
node app
open http://localhost:1337/
Go to Register. Create user.
Go to Login and enter user's email/pass
Click Test Token button and view user returned in console
make test #to run the test
This is an adaptation of Michael Herman's http://mherman.org/blog/2013/11/11/user-authentication-with-passport-dot-js/ tutorial where he shows an example of using passport-local with an expressjs stack to do local user/password style authentication. I had a need to do API token based authentication where you, essentially:
- register
- login
- get an API token
- make subsequent ajax http requests to your REST API using the token
So I rewrote from scratch :)
I feel the need to mention that my background is as a front-end developer with some full stack. I've built similar API's but there are many others that would be more qualified to do this and security, etc., are "hard". If you see a mistake and/or something that could be better feel free to contribute back or create an issue. Thanks!
http://mherman.org/blog/2013/11/11/user-authentication-with-passport-dot-js/
https://github.com/jaredhanson/passport-local
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20228572/passport-local-with-node-jwt-simple
http://coderead.wordpress.com/2012/08/16/securing-node-js-restful-services-with-jwt-tokens/
github "fork and pull request" model