README.md

A progressive Node.js framework for building efficient and scalable server-side applications.

Description

Authentication && Authorization NestJS

Purpose of this application is to: Cover many key concepts of both Authentication & Authorization, including but not limited to:

• Creating a CUSTOM Auth & Authz workflow for our application (entirely from scratch)

  • Implementing Authentication (via username/password)

  • Hash passwords

  • Implementing sign-in & sign-out

    • via username/password
    • via Google Auth

  • Protect our Routes in our application (with Authentication)

  • Create PUBLIC routes

  • Refresh tokens & how to invalidate Tokens

  • Different types of Authorization

    • Role-based access control
    • claims-based authorization
    • Policy-based authorization

Installation

$ npm install

Running the app

# development
$ npm run start

# watch mode
$ npm run start:dev

# production mode
$ npm run start:prod

Test

# unit tests
$ npm run test

# e2e tests
$ npm run test:e2e

# test coverage
$ npm run test:cov