ronen-agranat/example-nestjs-auth

Complete, working example of NestJS authentication

example-nestjs-auth

A complete, working example of NestJS authentication

Getting started

Install node

https://nodejs.org/en/download/

Install nest CLI

    npm install -g @nestjs/cli

Install MySQL

https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/

Add MySQL bin directory to path.

This application is tested with MySQL 5.7 and 8.0. Note: Use legacy authentication mechanism for MySQL 8.0

Create database

Create MySQL database

    $ mysql -uroot -p
    mysql> create database `example_nestjs_auth`;

Set up local environment

Create file in project root called .db.env and set environment variables for DB, e.g.:

    TYPEORM_USERNAME=root
    TYPEORM_PASSWORD=<db_password>
    TYPEORM_HOST=localhost

Create file in project root called .jwt.env and set environment variables for JWT, e.g.:

    JWT_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=super_secret_access_key
    JWT_REFRESH_TOKEN_SECRET=super_secret_refresh_key