Prime Project

This version uses React, Redux, Express, Passport, and PostgreSQL (a full list of dependencies can be found in package.json).

We STRONGLY recommend following these instructions carefully. It's a lot, and will take some time to set up, but your life will be much easier this way in the long run.

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Set up

Prerequisites

Before you get started, make sure you have the following software installed on your computer:

Create Database and Table

Create a new database called secure_submarine and create a person table and secret table:

CREATE TABLE "person" (
    "id" SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
    "username" VARCHAR (80) UNIQUE NOT NULL,
    "password" VARCHAR (1000) NOT NULL,
    "clearance_level" INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0
);

INSERT INTO "person" ("username", "password", "clearance_level")
VALUES ('Admiral Greer', 'tuna', 18),
('Captain Borodin', 'shark', 10),
('Lieutenant Nguyen', 'fishy', 4),
('Lieutenant Ryan', 'tuna', 4);


CREATE TABLE "secret" (
    "id" SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
    "content" VARCHAR (80) UNIQUE NOT NULL,
    "secrecy_level" INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0
);

INSERT INTO "secret" ("content", "secrecy_level")
VALUES ('Admirals Only: Captain Borodin is totally weird.', 13),
('Captains Or Above: Lieutenant Ryan is looking fly.', 6),
('Lieutenants Or Above: We are heading to the Bahamas.', 3);

Download (Don't Clone) This Repository

Don't Fork or Clone. Instead, click the Clone or Download button and select Download Zip.
Unzip the project and start with the code in that folder.
Create a new GitHub project and push this code to the new repository.

Start the Application

Run npm install
Start postgres if not running already by using brew services start postgresql
Run npm run server
Run npm run client
Navigate to localhost:3000

Base Mode

On the Secure Submarine, there are many secrets, but our enemies are out to steal our secrets! We just realized that our Secure Submarine web portal (the portal for all of the hottest gossip on the secure submarine) is compromised! Anyone, logged in or not, can visit http://localhost:5000/api/secrets to see all of the secrets for the entire crew!

No Secrets for the Unauthenticated (Authentication)

Task: Only users who are authenticated should see any secrets.

The user router is protected from unauthenticated requests thanks to the rejectUnauthenticated middleware:

router.get('/', rejectUnauthenticated, (req, res) => {
  res.send(req.user);
});

Do this for the secrets route to achieve these results:

An unauthenticated user visiting http://localhost:5000/api/secrets should get a 403 or forbidden error instead of seeing the secrets.
A user like Admiral Greer with password tuna should still be able to visit http://localhost:3000/#/secrets to see all of the secrets.

No Secrets Above Clearance Level (Authorization)

Task: When authenticated, a user should only see secrets with a secrecy_level that is equal or less than the user's clearance_level.

A user like Captain Borodin with password shark is be to visit http://localhost:3000/#/secrets to see all of the secrets! That's no good! There's a secret in there that calls him weird!

You should see the clearance level in the console log inside of secrets GET request in secrets.router.js. Now fix the query in secrets.router.js so that it uses the clearance level to determine which secrets to return.

A user like Captain Borodin with password shark should no longer be able to see any secrets above his clearance_level which is 10.
A user like Admiral Greer with password tuna should still be able to visit http://localhost:3000/#/secrets to see all of the secrets.

Stretch Goals

Hashing

If you're interested in securely storing passwords, you should salt and hash them. Here is a quick video that explains it pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZtInClXe1Q

Right now, we are storing the passwords in plain text, so if the enemy got a hold of our database, they would know everybody's password! Instead of storing plain passwords, we should scramble them up. That is called hashing.

Uncomment this line to start hashing passwords for each user.

return bcrypt.hashSync(password, '$2b$10$p5Wkte33hlOBOcUtJie6H.');

Because the database doesn't store the actual password, we can't just check to see if they are equal like we were doing before. Uncomment this line to allow us to check candidatePasswords (what the user entered), against the storedPassword (the hash in the database).

return bcrypt.compareSync(candidatePassword, storedPassword);

New users will now have their passwords hashed!

Run these queries to add your users back to the database with hashed passwords:

DROP TABLE "person";

CREATE TABLE "person" (
    "id" SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
    "username" VARCHAR (80) UNIQUE NOT NULL,
    "password" VARCHAR (1000) NOT NULL,
    "clearance_level" INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0
);

INSERT INTO "person" ("username", "password", "clearance_level")
VALUES ('Admiral Greer', '$2b$10$p5Wkte33hlOBOcUtJie6H.PnCvk8v.KjZspVoAFtT7g5v5xK.EXVG', 18),
('Captain Borodin', '$2b$10$p5Wkte33hlOBOcUtJie6H.ZIgFjzr4zY8FItxC8gZyqIWD5gYmL0m', 10),
('Lieutenant Nguyen', '$2b$10$p5Wkte33hlOBOcUtJie6H.vaUd5ikB1LWCbVZAA87BR63NiDorn1C', 4),
('Lieutenant Ryan', '$2b$10$p5Wkte33hlOBOcUtJie6H.PnCvk8v.KjZspVoAFtT7g5v5xK.EXVG', 4);

Salting

Now that we are no longer storing plain text passwords. The enemy is unable to see the crew's passwords. However, Lieutenant Ryan has been careless, and the enemy knows that his password is tuna. Because of this, they can see the lowest security information. Then they notice that Admiral Greer's hashed password perfectly matches Lieutenant Ryan's hashed password! They now know that Admiral Greer's password is tuna as well! We should fix our code so that even if two people have the same password, it has a different hash in the database. Enter salting! Salting is the process of generating a random string for each user. Notice that every password starts with $2b$10$p5Wkte33hlOBOcUtJie6H.. That is the salt! These should be random and generated uniquely for each user.

Uncomment these two lines to start creating a unique salt for each user.

const salt = bcrypt.genSaltSync(SALT_WORK_FACTOR); // This generates a random salt

return bcrypt.hashSync(password, salt);

New users will now have their passwords salted and hashed!

Run these queries to add your users back to the database with hashed passwords:

DROP TABLE "person";

CREATE TABLE "person" (
    "id" SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
    "username" VARCHAR (80) UNIQUE NOT NULL,
    "password" VARCHAR (1000) NOT NULL,
    "clearance_level" INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0
);

INSERT INTO "person" ("username", "password", "clearance_level")
VALUES ('Admiral Greer', '$2b$10$uxPm0qeJAz70oqhEg8dX6uXlYc2PWUtPuZhTa65OiDv2LCHA41OLq', 18),
('Captain Borodin', '$2b$10$iUCrWSMvLpYuKQLsmmTiNe3gfU6jAdyElCbCLtboVH6DlXJdsuPxG', 10),
('Lieutenant Nguyen', '$2b$10$/3yhbbjXPPf3L4Z1gXDA5OJzJkf6b.2CuvIA8OzP6c8jPEQlbo5re', 4),
('Lieutenant Ryan', '$2b$10$hr1Tlo6K.yxAq3FC4iIHsuYQwYpjQC8SyDnYykMu/LNB9TXMkxMt2', 4);

Admiral Greer and Lieutenant Ryan still have the same passwords as before, but it's not easy to see that because of salting and hashing.

Create an Environment Variable

SERVER_SESSION_SECRET is supposed to be a secret, but right now we are pushing it to GitHub! Let's create an environment variable so that we don't do this.

Uncomment // return process.env.SERVER_SESSION_SECRET; in session-middleware.js
Run npm install dotenv to get the node module that can create environment variables
Add the line require('dotenv').config(); to the top of server.js to use the module
add .env to your .gitignore file
Create a .env file at the root of the project and paste this line into the file:
```
SERVER_SESSION_SECRET=superDuperSecret
```
While you're in your new .env file, take the time to replace superDuperSecret with some long random string like 25POUbVtx6RKVNWszd9ERB9Bb6 to keep your application secure. Here's a site that can help you: https://passwordsgenerator.net/.

Production Build

Before pushing to Heroku, run npm run build in terminal. This will create a build folder that contains the code Heroku will be pointed at. You can test this build by typing npm start. Keep in mind that npm start will let you preview the production build but will not auto update.

Start postgres if not running already by using brew services start postgresql
Run npm start
Navigate to localhost:5000

Deployment

Create a new Heroku project
Link the Heroku project to the project GitHub Repo
Create an Heroku Postgres database
Connect to the Heroku Postgres database from Postico
Create the necessary tables
Add an environment variable for SERVER_SESSION_SECRET with a nice random string for security
In the deploy section, select manual deploy

Update Documentation

Customize this ReadMe and the code comments in this project to read less like a starter repo and more like a project. Here is an example: https://gist.github.com/PurpleBooth/109311bb0361f32d87a2

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Prime Project

Download (Don't Clone) This Repository

Set up

Prerequisites

Create Database and Table

Download (Don't Clone) This Repository

Start the Application

Base Mode

No Secrets for the Unauthenticated (Authentication)

No Secrets Above Clearance Level (Authorization)

Stretch Goals

Hashing

Salting

Create an Environment Variable

Production Build

Deployment

Update Documentation