nodejs-account-boilerplate

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Project Overview

This is a boilerplate for new projects based on node.js and MongoDB. It reduces the initial effort so you can start with the fun things, and not implement an account system for the 24th time. It also comes with required basic functionality, like access to the appropriate database based on the node-environment or internationalization.

This boilerplate is still under active development.

It has the following features (might be incompete):

• Accounts

  • Create new account
    • E-Mail/Password
    • via facebook (soon)
  • Edit account information
  • Change password
  • Secure forgot password reset
  • Session tracking for website
  • Blowfish-based password encryption (every password is hashed with an individual salt)

• Environment-based database access

  • set a different DB for development than production (or any stage you want)

• Full test coverage

• Internationalization

  • the website views (/public/views) display how to offer the website in multiple languages
  • the internationalization is currently incomplete, e.g. error message & API returns are currently only in English

API

The boilerplate does not only provide you with a website and the necessary server functions, it also has a REST API to handle the account related things. Adding new endpoints is fast and easy. Perfect for new projects with mobile apps (or any platform which is able to send HTTP requests and de/serialize JSON).

• Requests are authenticated with a token (not username/password)
• The requests from the REST API and the website run against the same business logic, just the handling is different (see account methods as an example for new endpoints)

A fully functional android app boilerplate which uses the provided APIs is available here.

Stack

You need the following core technologies to run nodejs-account-boilerplate:

• NodeJS
• MongoDB

Besides the core technologies it uses major components (this list is very likely incomplete):

• Express.js - Node.js Web Framework
• Jade - HTML Templating Engine
• EmailJS - Node.js > SMTP Server Middleware
• Bcrypt - For password encryption
• FontAwesome - The iconic font designed for Bootstrap
• Twitter Bootstrap - UI Component & Layout Library
• Mocha - node.js Testing framework

The website is based on the Modern Business template.

Install

You have install NodeJS dependencies before usage

git clone git@github.com:fs-opensource/nodejs-account-boilerplate.git
cd nodejs-account-boilerplate
npm install

Configure MongoDB server connection

nano server/settings/db.js

Configure E-Mail smtp server connection

nano server/settings/email.js

Start NodeJS server

node server

If everything is set up correctly, visit

localhost:3000

Tests

The provided functions are thoroughly tested. Run

mocha test

for our provided tests.

REST API

A request to the REST API to signup a new user could look like this (use a tool like postman to quickly test the API):

POST /api/user/signup HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:3000
Content-Type: application/json

{ 
  "email":"testuser@gmail.com",
  "phone":"0123456789",
  "password":"password"
}

A full API documentation is available on Github at /docs/api-docs

nginx

In case you're running the boilerplate on a nginx server, you might need to change the Underscores in Headers setting to on:

underscores_in_headers on

We are using underscores in some header parameters for the API. If you don't turn it on, the headers will be ignored and it won't work as expected.

Contributions

We very warmly welcome any contributions. If it's bugs, feature requests or implementation, we enjoy feedback :)

License

The MIT License (MIT)

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