Securing RESTful APIs

Project building a secure Node and Express API, including how to add handlers for registration and login, finalize secured endpoints, and test of finalized API.

• Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
• Reasons for using a JSON Web Token (JWT)
• Adding bcrypt password hashing
• Adding handlers for registration and login
• Finalizing secured endpoints
• Testing APIs with Postman

[ ] Start Node and Express

[ ] Start mongoDB

Endpoints: / , /contacts , /contact/:contactId, /auth/register , /login

Tech used:

• JavaScript
• Node
• Express
• MongoDB
• bcrypt
• body-parser
• jsonwebtoken
• mongoose
• nodemon
• VS Code
• Postman
• MongoDB Compass