Authentication System

JSON Web Token (JWT) based authentication

A MEAN stack application demonstrating token based authentication without using any packages such as Passport.js. JWT as defined on JWT.io is an open industry standard method for transfering information securely between two parties.

Prerequisits

• Node.js
• MongoDB
• Angular-cli

Installing / Getting started

Clone the repo and install dependencies:

git clone https://github.com/midhun-pk/authentication-system.git
cd authentication-system
npm install
cd client
npm install
cd ..

Start mongodb and run below commands:

npm run build
npm start

Initial Configuration

Make necessary changes to config.js in authentication-system/config/config.js.

To activate email verification when signing up, make changes to mailerAuthOptions property in config.js. Follow this article to get the clientId, clientSecret, refreshToken to set up OAuth2 which is a secure way of allowing the application to use gmail service.

Developing

For frontend development:

cd authentication-system/client
ng serve

The above command starts a server at localhost:4200

Building

To build the frontend:

cd authentication-system
npm run build

Folder client/dist will be created.

Features

• Secure Email verification using OAuth 2.0
• Secure information ranser between client and server using JSON Web Tokens

Contributing

If you'd like to contribute, please fork the repository and use a feature branch. Pull requests are warmly welcome.

Licensing

The code in this project is licensed under MIT license.