README.md

React Serverless Authentication

Description

A serverless and stateless JWT authentication system for react app build using netlify function

Instructions

First clone this repository.

$ git clone https://github.com/mirsahib/React-Serverless-Authentication.git

Install dependencies. Make sure you already have nodejs & npm installed in your system.

$ yarn install

After successfull installation run

$ netlify dev

Database and Local environment setting

Rename .env.example to .env and add your mongo db password and jwt token secret.Generate a strong password from here

REACT_APP_DB_PASSWORD = <Your mongodb atlas cluster password>
REACT_APP_JWT_TOKEN = <Your randomly generated password>

API

Base url : http://localhost:8888/

URL	Body	Response	Description
.netlify/functions/signup	username password	UserID email	return userid id and email
.netlify/functions/login	username password	UserID email	return userid and email
.netlify/functions/user	none	UserID email	return userid and email
.netlify/functions/auth	none	{auth:status}	return auth true or false

NB: Use Postman to test the api

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