Anonymous authentication with Prisma, MongoDB, JWT and typescript
Anonymous login is a fantastic way to identify your users without asking them to sign up for an account. This is a pain for the user so by not forcing him to create an account your also helping to increase the userbase.
Create a .env file in the root of the project and add the following lines:
DATABASE_URL=mongodb+srv://<username>:<password>@<cluster>.mongodb.net/yourDbName
JWT_ACCESS_SECRET=<your-secret-here>
JWT_REFRESH_SECRET=<your-secret-here>
We're using mongodb atlas as our database provider because Prisma needs to perform transactions, which requires your MongoDB server to be run as a replica set; which is doable in a local dev environment but it's quite a pain so this is the easiest way to get started
Now simply run yarn install and yarn start to start the server
The entire codebase is written in typescript and uses these libraries:
- prisma
- jsonwebtoken
- express
- express-jwt (ready to use jwt middleware)
├── prisma
│ ├── client.ts
│ └── schema.prisma
├── src
│ ├── constants.ts
│ ├── index.ts
│ ├── middlewares.ts
│ ├── routes
│ │ ├── auth.ts
│ │ └── user.ts
│ ├── types.ts
│ └── utils.ts
├── .env
├── .gitignore
├── tsconfig.json
├── package.json
└── yarn.lock