About

This is a Node.js REST API demo project to explore concepts like authentication, salting, controllers, schemas, session tokens, routing, middleware and restful APIs. Features include creating, updating, deleting and authenticating users.

Tech used

• Node
• Express
• Mongoose
• Lodash

How to run

Setup an .env file like this:

SECRET = [YOUR_SECRET]
MONGO_URL = [YOUR_MONGODB_URL]

You can run the api locally with:

npm run start

Routes

POST /auth/register

{
    "email": "second@second1.com",
    "password": "1234",
    "username": "Caesar"
}

POST /auth/login

{
    "email": "second@second1.com",
    "password": "1234",
    "username": "Caesar"
}

GET /users (gets all users but you have to be logged in)

DEL /users/:id (deletes your user but you have to be logged in)

PATCH /users/:id

{
    "username": "Quintus"
}