Spring API + JWT Auth Template

Starter REST API with JWT Security

Dependencies

• Java OpenJDK 17
• Postgres 12.9+

This API uses environment variables for local development, same for staging and deployment phase

This must be configured before running the app

Name	Description
SPRING_ENV	This sets the current environment dev, prod
DATABASE_URL	Database URL for connection
DATABASE_USERNAME	Database user eg. postgres
DATABASE_PASSWORD	Secret for database access
JWT_SECRET	Secret for jwt encoding

For a secret generation run

openssl rand -hex 32

Usage

Make a POST request to /login with this JSON format

{
 "username": ...,
 "password:" ...
}

You will receive a JWT Acess Token