This project base includes a Node.js backend app which uses PostgreSQL database. The app has API routes for registering new users and signing in. An authorization management is made by Json Web Tokens. Access to API routes is controlled by auth and admin middlewares.
The app uses TypeORM for handling database queries.
This project is MIT licenced and you can use it as a base of your own projects. After cloning the repository you need to install npm packages with command "npm install" (or with yarn: "yarn install").
You need to make .env file which contains necessary environmental variables. Theres is .env-template file which you can use and rename it to ".env".
You also need a PostgreSQL database installed on your machine and you need to add database configuration info on .env file.
First five variables on .env file are for database configuration.
JWT_SECRET variable is used as a seed for generating tokens and it is an arbitrary string.
Last two variables are credentials of an admin user which can be initialized with POST request to path http://localhost:5000/api/user/init (for example using Postman).
You can run the app with nodemon using command "npm run watch". If everything is working you will see this text on your console:
Server is running on port 5000.
Server is connected to PostgreSQL database.
If you have an idea how to make this project base more useful feel free to make an issue or pull request about it.