promathieuthiry/login-user-server

Login user server

This is a project to build a RESTful services with Node, Express and MySQL with authentication and authorization.

Table of contents

• Overview
  • The challenge
  • Links
• My process
  • Built with
  • What I learned
• Author

Overview

The challenge

Users should be able to:

• Login or sign up (POST, CREATE)
• Update his personnal information (UPDATE)
• Add a profil picture (POST)
• Preview all modification
• Logout

Links

• backend deployed to Heroku
• frontend repository to Githhub
• Live Site URL: Netlify

My process

Built with

• Node
• Express
• MySQL

What I learned

• Connect a database with MySQL
• CRUD operations
• Create an API
• Build and Structure MVC Application
• Create my own middleware
• Authenticating Users with JWT
• Protecting routes with an authorization middleware
• Save image as blob in database (using file-type)
• Secure applications with environment variable
• Data validation with Joi
• Encrypt a password with bcrypt
• Deploy a database and a server to production

Author

• Website - mathieuthiry.fr
• Twitter - @mathieu_thiry