NodeJS – JWT based Authentication & Authorization example with JSONWebTokens, Redis & SequelizeORM

• A nodejs based backend for authentication and authorization using jwt.
• Used Redis to store the refresh token post successful login.
• Used SequelizeORM (PostgreSQL) to store user information.
• Performed validations for password and emails at db and server side.

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Requirements

For development, you will only need Node.js and a node global package, npm, installed in your environement.

Node

• Node installation on Windows

  Just go on official Node.js website and download the installer. Also, be sure to have git available in your PATH, npm might need it (You can find git here).

• Other Operating Systems

  You can find more information about the installation on the official Node.js website and the official NPM website.

If the installation was successful, you should be able to run the following command.

$ node --version
v16.13.0

$ npm --version
8.1.0

If you need to update npm, you can make it using npm! Cool right? After running the following command, just open again the command line and be happy.

$ npm install npm -g

Yarn installation

After installing node, this project will need yarn too, so just run the following command.

$ npm install -g yarn

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Install

$ git clone https://github.com/anandman03/nodejs-jwt-auth-backend
$ cd nodejs-jwt-auth-backend
$ npm install

Running the project

$ npm run dev

Simple build for production

$ npm run build