Node.js REST API starter

This repository is a template to avoid rewriting all the basic authentication code for REST API's built with Express.js, MongoDB.

Table of contents

1. Why this template
2. Project architecture and Directories Structure
3. Tech stack
4. Install and configure Node.js
5. MongoDB installation and configuration
6. Setup and Run the Project
7. Setup GitHub actions
8. Authors
9. Contributing

Why this template

• This repository includes setup of all basic things required to start a MEAN/MERN stack backend
• Environments setup
• Connection to database(MongoDB)
• Admin routes for handling users
• Authentication - fully handled
• Social auth includes Facebook and Google OAuth2 authorization
• Provides clean structured code
• Mocha Tests to ensure API is working
• Email templates for account verification and password reset
• Token based email verification and OTP based password reset
• Body field validators

Project architecture and Directories Structure

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├── api
│   └── v1
│       ├── controllers
│       │   ├── auth.js
│       │   ├── token.js
│       │   └── user.js
│       ├── middlewares
│       │   └── auth.js
│       ├── models
│       │   ├── auth.js
│       │   ├── token.js
│       │   └── user.js
│       ├── routes
│       │   ├── admin
│       │   │   └── auth.js
│       │   ├── auth.js
│       │   └── user.js
│       └── utils
│           ├── constants
│           │   ├── account.js
│           │   ├── collection_names.js
│           │   ├── email_token.js
│           │   ├── error_messages.js
│           │   ├── headers.js
│           │   └── success_messages.js
│           ├── constants.js
│           ├── response.js
│           ├── send_email.js
│           ├── templates
│           │   └── verify_email.pug
│           └── validators.js
├── assets
│   └── banner-node-rest-api.png
├── core
│   ├── config.js
│   ├── db.js
│   ├── helpers.js
│   ├── jwt.js
│   ├── print_env.js
│   └── server.js
├── index.js
├── keys
│   ├── private.pem
│   ├── privater.pem
│   ├── public.pem
│   └── publicr.pem
├── package.json
├── package-lock.json
├── public
│   └── images
├── README.md
├── tests
│   └── v1
│       ├── auth.js
│       └── test.js
└── utils
    ├── ASSET_LICENSES
    ├── bash_scripts
    │   ├── mongodb_setup.sh
    │   ├── node_setup.sh
    │   └── setup_project.sh
    ├── CONTRIBUTING.md
    ├── docs
    │   ├── gh_actions.md
    │   ├── setup_mongo.md
    │   ├── setup_node.md
    │   └── setup_project.md
    ├── node-rest-api-auth.postman_collection.json
    └── swagger
        ├── api
        │   └── v1
        │       ├── auths.yaml
        │       └── paths.yaml
        ├── schemas
        └── swagger.yaml

Tech stack

Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB, JWT, Pug.js, Sendgrid mail

Dependencies

Check package.json file

Tests

Tests are written using Mocha and Chai, here

CI/CD

Runs Tests on pull request is raised

Project setup

Go ahead into the root directory of the repository and follow the below instructions

Note: Setup scripts and docs are written only for Ubuntu based operating system, for other operating systems please refer to respective websites.

For manual setup docs, please refer here,

• MongoDB
• Node.js
• Project & keys

Installation of Node.js

Execute the below command in terminal

bash utils/bash_scripts/setup_node.sh

MongoDB installation and configuration

Execute the below command in terminal

bash utils/bash_scripts/setup_mongo.sh

Setup and run the project

Execute the below command in terminal

bash utils/bash_scripts/setup_project.sh

1. Setup environment variables Rename the .env.example as .env and fill up your details there.

SendGrid Create an account at SendGrid SendGrid. Create a new API Key here Verify a sender email and use that email in the .env file, to verify click here

2. Place your application's Database credentials and config inside the .env.

3. Install Prettier and ESLint in VS Code

4. Google and Facebook client details, check out this article for generating client details

5. Run the project with nodemon (dev server)

npm run dev

or Run as normal project (prod server)

npm start

6. Run tests

npm test

After running the project, checkout swagger ui at http://localhost:7000/explorer/#/

Setup GitHub actions

Refer this page

Authors

Contributing

Check Contributing file