🛂 Nest.js Authentication Example

Nest.js authentication with Passport. RealWorld example

Features

• Authentication using Passport
• Local and JWT strategies are implemented
• TypeORM to connect with PostgreSQL
• Unit tests, integration tests and E2E tests
• ts-auto-mock with ttypescript to generate mocks with jest
• Check code quality with MegaLinter
• Check continuous integration with github actions
• Run the necessary services with docker compose

Run Locally

Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/leosuncin/nest-auth-example.git

Go to the project directory

  cd nest-auth-example

Install dependencies

  npm install

Create a .env from the example one and customize it with your environment variables

  cp .env.example .env

Start the services using Docker Compose

  docker-compose up -d

Run migrations to create the DB schema

  npm run typeorm migration:run

Start the server

  npm run start:dev

Environment Variables

To run this project, you will need to add the following environment variables to your .env file

POSTGRES_DB the name of the database to connect in the PostgreSQL instance (required)

POSTGRES_USER The name of the user to connect to the PostgreSQL instance (required)

POSTGRES_PASSWORD The password of the user to connect to the PostgreSQL instance (required)

DATABASE_URL a connection string to the PostgreSQL instance, example postgres://postgres|@localhost/example-db (required)

PORT the port that Nest.js will listen at (required)

APP_SECRET the secret used to encrypt the session (required)

ALLOWED_ORIGINS a comma separated list of origins from which accept request (required)

You can copy the example .env and edit the values

  cp .env.example .env

Running Tests

To run unit tests, run the following command:

  npm test

To run e2e tests (the PostgreSQL instance must be available), run the following command:

  npm run test:e2e

To see the code coverage

  npm run test:cov

Try it online

Tech Stack

Server: Typescript, PostgreSQL, Nest.js, TypeORM, Passport

Test: Jest, SuperTest, TS auto mock

DevOps: Docker Compose

Author

👤 Jaime Leonardo Suncin Cruz

• Twitter: @jl_suncin
• Github: @leosuncin

• LinkedIn: @jaimesuncin

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License

Release under the terms of MIT