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Friday, August 07, 2020

NodeJS JSON API + MongoDB + JWT + ES6 forms

Here is how to create a real-life NodeJS API together with a login form.

Resources:

JavaScript for beginners - learn by doing

Learn Node.js, Express and MongoDB + JWT

We will start with the HTML representing the form as well as its JavaScript functionality:

formLogin.html


  <html>
<body>
<form id="myform">
<div>
<label for="email">Email:</label>
<input type="text" id="email" name="email" />
</div>
<div>
<label for="password">Password:</label>
<input type="password" id="password" name="password" />
</div>
<div class="button">
<button type="submit" id="loginUser">Send</button>
</div>
</form>

<div id="result"></div>

<script type="text/javascript">
async function fetchData(url = '', data = {}, method, headers = {}) {
const response = await fetch(
url, {
method,
headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json', ...headers },
...data && { body: JSON.stringify(data) },
});
return response.json();
}

let form = document.querySelector('#myform');
if (form) {
form.addEventListener('submit', (e) => {
e.preventDefault();
fetchData(
'/user/login',
{ email: this.email.value, password: this.password.value },
'POST'
).then((result) => {
if (result.token) {
// request the url with token
fetchData('/info', null, 'GET', { Bearer: result.token })
.then((result) => { console.log(result); });
return;
}
document.querySelector('#result').innerHTML = `message: ${result.message}`;
})
.catch(error => console.log('error:', error));
})
}
</script>
</body>
</html>



our main node server: index.js

import express from "express";
import mongoose from "mongoose";
import dotenv from "dotenv";

// import the routes
import routes from "./routes/routes.js";

// create an express instance
const app = express();

app.use(express.json())

// setup the middleware routes
routes(app);

// config the database credentials
dotenv.config();

// connect to the database
mongoose.connect(
process.env.DB_CONNECT,
{ useNewUrlParser: true, useUnifiedTopology: true },
() => console.log("connected to mongoDB")
);
// listen for errors
mongoose.connection.on('error', console.error.bind(console, 'MongoDB connection error:'));
// listen on port 3000
app.listen(3000, () => console.log("server is running"));

application routes: routes.js

import { loginUser } from "../controllers/controller.js";
import { info } from "../controllers/info.js"; // the protected route
import { auth } from "../controllers/verifyToken.js"; // middleware for validating the token

import * as path from 'path';
import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';
const __filename = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url); // The absolute URL of the current file.
const __dirname = path.dirname(__filename); // parse just the directory


const routes = app => {
app.route("/user/login").get((req, res) => { res.sendFile('formLogin.html', { root: path.join(__dirname, "../views") }); });
app.route("/user/login").post((req, res) => loginUser(req, res)); // we capture inside req, and res

app.route("/info").get(auth, (req, res) => info(req, res)); // we capture inside req, and res
// and insert the auth middleware to process the token
};
export default routes;


our main controller: controller.js

import mongoose from "mongoose";
mongoose.set("useCreateIndex", true);
import { userSchema } from "../models/user.js";
import jwt from "jsonwebtoken";

const User = mongoose.model("users", userSchema); // users is the name of our collection!
export const addNewUser = (req, res) => {
User.init(() => {
// init() resolves when the indexes have finished building successfully.
// in order for unique check to work

let newUser = new User(req.body); // just creating w/o saving
newUser.password = newUser.encryptPassword(req.body.password);

newUser.save((err, user) => { // now saving
if (err) {
res.json({ 'message': 'duplicate email' });
}
res.json(user);
});
});
};

export const loginUser = (req, res) => {

if (req.body.password == null || req.body.email == null) {
res.status(400).json({ 'message': 'Please provide email / password' });
return;
}

User.init(() => {
User.findOne({ email: req.body.email }, (err, user) => {
if (err) {
res.json(err);
return;
}
if (user == null) {
res.status(400).json({ 'message': 'Non existing user' });
return;
});

// here user is the fetched user
const validPassword = user.validatePassword(req.body.password, user.password);

if (!validPassword) {
res.status(400).json({ 'message': 'Not valid password' });
return;
}

// create and send a token to be able to use it in further requests
const token = jwt.sign({ _id: user._id }, process.env.TOKEN_SECRET);
res.header("auth-token", token) // set the token in the header of the response
.json({ 'token': token }); // display the token
});
});
};



js helper middleware for working with JWT tokens: verifyToken.js

    import jwt from "jsonwebtoken";
export const auth = (req, res, next) => {
const token = req.header("Bearer");
if (!token) return res.status(401).json({'message':'access denied'});
const verified = jwt.verify(token, process.env.TOKEN_SECRET);
if (!verified) res.status(400).message({'message':'Invalid token'});
// continue from the middleware to the next processing middleware :)
next();
};


user database model: user.js

import mongoose from 'mongoose';
import bcrypt from 'bcryptjs';

let userSchema = new mongoose.Schema(
{
email: {
type: String,
requires: "Enter email",
maxlength: 50,
unique: true
},
password: {
type: String,
required: "Enter password",
maxlength: 65
}
},
{
timestamps: true
}
);

userSchema.method({
encryptPassword: (password) => {
return bcrypt.hashSync(password, bcrypt.genSaltSync(5));
},
validatePassword: (pass1, pass2) => {
return bcrypt.compareSync(pass1, pass2);
}
});

export { userSchema };

Congratulations !

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