Express.js Auth Example

About

A simple authetification example in express.js using express-session. The project is dockerized in a single docker-compose file for quick and easy development.

One command starts :

• API server
• PostgreSQL DB
• Redis (for storing sessions)

Usage

Make sure you have Docker installed!

Configure .env as well as docker-compose.yaml file

Make sure to configure .env file ,use .env.example for guide.

Run:

docker compose up

Routes

• /create-user

  Creates new user in DB, requires username and password, password in hashed with bcrypt

• /login

  if valid stores userId in session

• /logout

  destroys user session

• /check-user

  returns userId or null if session not valid

Additional Features:

• global error handling via ApiError class and custom error middleware