This project allows to create REST APIs for:

• basic authentication and authorization using JWT (JSON Web Token),
• user registration
• listing existing users

The project files are divided into a 'backend' and 'frontend' folder.

INSTALLATION GUIDE

1. Setting up the MySql database

In order to run this code, you first have to create a MySql database called 'authentication_db' with a table called 'users' with the following columns:

• id INT(11) AUTO_INCREMENT not null PRIMARY KEY
• username VARCHAR(256) not null
• email VARCHAR(256) not null
• password VARCHAR(256) not null
• subscription DATE not null
• refresh_token TEXT
• createdAt DATE not null
• updatedAt DATE not null

If you have an existing database, you can instead link to it, by modifying the following configuration files:

• backend/config/database.js
• backend/models/userModels.js

2. Setting up the backend

To install all the backend packages run the following command from inside the 'backend' folder: npm install

and the following command to run the server: nodemon index

3. Setting up the frontend

To install all the frontend packages run the following command from inside the 'frontend' folder: npm install

and the following command to run the nodejs hosting the frontend: npm start

This command will open the frontend at the url http://localhost:3000