JWT Token Project

This project demonstrates the implementation of JSON Web Tokens (JWT) for authentication and authorization in a web application.

It is an implementation of the following article: https://medium.com/@prashantramnyc/authenticate-rest-apis-in-node-js-using-jwt-json-web-tokens-f0e97669aad3

To convert Epoch and Unix Timestap: https://www.epochconverter.com/

To inspect JWT-tokes: https://jwt.io/

Features

• User authentication with JWT
• Token-based authorization
• Secure password storage
• Token expiration and renewal

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/yourusername/jwt-token.git

2. Navigate to the project directory:

   cd jwt-token

3. Install dependencies:

   npm install

Usage, main flow

1. Start the authentication server:

   npm run authenticateServer

2. Start the validation server:

   npm run validateServer

3. Add users using POST localhost:4000/user {"name" : "name","password" : "password"}

4. Login using POST localhost:4000/login {"name" : "name","password" : "password"}

5. Access using GET localhost:5000/posts (until accesstoken expires) add accesstoken to Authorization / type OAuth 2.0

6. Refresh token using POST localhost:4000/refreshToken {"name" : "name","token" : "refreshtoken"}

7. Access using GET localhost:5000/posts (until access token expires) add accesstoken to Authorization / type OAuth 2.0

8. Logout using DELETE localhost:4000/logout {"token" : "refreshtoken"}

9. POST localhost:4000/user ({"name":"name","password":"password"} in Body )

10. POST localhost:4000/login ({"name":"name","password":"password"} in Body )

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.