Introduction

This Express API template already have the following features set up:

• Basic authentication: registration, login and logout
• Forgot password feature
• Email verification: by default, this feature is set to false (i.e. optional). You can make it compulsory by setting MUST_VERIFY_EMAIL=true in the .env file
• Manage basic profile information
• Manage profile image
• Change password feature

Installation

• Clone the application and run npm install
• Create a .env file by running cp .env.example .env and provide necessary environment variables.
• Run npm run db-migrate to create database migrations
• Run npm run dev to start dev server
• Launch Postman or Insomnia and run
• Test if everything is up and running on Postman or Insomnia by sending a GET request to localhost:{APP_PORT}/api/v1/status. A 200 response code is an indication that everything is up and running.

Environment variables worth explaining

MAIL:

The application supports sending of mails using SMTP or Sendgrid API method. You can use either of the options. To use SMTP, set MAIL_DEFAULT_METHOD=smtp and provide the values for the following depending on the mailing service you are using;

MAIL_DEFAULT_METHOD=smtp
MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS=noreply@nodetestapp.com
MAIL_FROM_NAME="Node Test App"
MAIL_HOST=smtp.mailtrap.io
MAIL_PORT=2525
MAIL_USERNAME=
MAIL_PASSWORD=

Note that, by default you can also test the mailing feature using Mailtrap by just providing your Mailtrap username and password as seen on your Mailtrap Dashboard. Note that this is only for testing purpose while developing.

To make use of the second mailing option, which is the Sendgrid API method, set MAIL_DEFAULT_METHOD=api and provide the value for SENDGRID_API_KEY=. This is the Sendgrid API KEY you created on your Sendgrid Dashboard. You can visit their website to know more about this.

TOKEN:

The TOKEN_SECRET_KEY= is used by the jsonwebtoken npm package. Please, don't leave this option blank. TOKEN_LIFETIME= can also be set to any value of your choice, by default it is set to 365 days which is a year. You can visit their page on npm to know more.

Technologies Used

• NodeJs / Express
• MySQL Database with Sequelize as ORM