Nestjs auth simple boilerplate

Description

A Nest.js boilerplate with authentication with jwt, verification emails, etc.

🔍 Table of Contents

• ⭐️ Highlights

• 💻 Stack

• 📝 Project Summary

• ⚙️ Setting Up

• 🚀 Run Locally

• 🧪 Run tests

⭐️ Highlights

• JWT Authentication
• Refresh JWT token
• Send/Resend confirmation emails
• Change user password
• Change user email (email confirmation)

💻 Stack

• nestjs/typeorm: Integration of TypeORM with NestJS for database management.
• nestjs/swagger: Generates OpenAPI (Swagger) documentation for the NestJS application.
• nestjs/jwt: JWT (JSON Web Token) authentication module for NestJS.
• nestjs/passport: Authentication module for NestJS that supports various strategies.
• nestjs/config: Configuration module for NestJS applications.

📝 Project Summary

• src/auth: Handles authentication-related functionalities such as decorators, guards, strategies, and validations.
• src/core: Contains core project files and utilities.
• src/users: Manages user-related functionalities including DTOs, entities, enums, and fixtures.
• src/test-utils: Provides utilities for testing purposes.
• templates: Holds template files for the project.
• views: Manages view files for the project.

⚙️ Setting Up

Clone this repository. Set up your virtual environment (optional but recommended). Copy the contents of .env.example into a new file named .env and configure the required variables.

APP_PORT=3000

POSTGRES_URL="postgresql://bl_pg_user:bl_pg_password@localhost:4848/bl_pg_local_db"
POSTGRES_TEST_URL="postgresql://test_user:test_password@localhost:4949/bl_pg_test_db"

JWT_ACCESS_SECRET="KEY_SECRET"
JWT_REFRESH_SECRET="KEY_SECRET"
JWT_EXPIRES="45min"
JWT_REFRESH_EXPIRES="1y"


JWT_VERIFICATION_TOKEN_SECRET="123"
JWT_VERIFICATION_TOKEN_EXPIRATION_TIME="21600s"
EMAIL_CONFIRMATION_URL="http://localhost:3000/auth/email/confirm-email"


JWT_FORGOT_PASSWORD_TOKEN_SECRET="123"
JWT_FORGOT_PASSWORD_TOKEN_EXPIRATION_TIME="21600s"
FORGOT_PASSWORD_URL="http://localhost:3000/auth/restore-password"


MAIL_HOST=smtp.example.com
MAIL_USER=examples@mail.com
MAIL_PASSWORD=some-password
MAIL_FROM=noreply@example.com

APP_PORT

• Choose a port number for your application (e.g., 3000, 8080).

POSTGRES_URL

• Replace bl_pg_user with the username for your PostgreSQL database.
• Replace bl_pg_password with the password for your PostgreSQL database.
• Replace localhost:4848 with the host and port of your PostgreSQL database.
• Replace bl_pg_local_db with the name of your PostgreSQL database.

If you modify these values ​​make sure to change too at the docker-compose.yaml file

POSTGRES_TEST_URL

• Replace test_user with the username for your test PostgreSQL database.
• Replace test_password with the password for your test PostgreSQL database.
• Replace localhost:4949 with the host and port of your test PostgreSQL database.
• Replace bl_pg_test_db with the name of your test PostgreSQL database.

If you modify these values ​​make sure to change too at the docker-compose.yaml file

JWT_ACCESS_SECRET

• Generate a secret key for signing JWT access tokens.

JWT_REFRESH_SECRET

• Generate a secret key for signing JWT refresh tokens.

JWT_EXPIRES

• Set the expiration time for JWT access tokens (e.g., 45min, 1h).

JWT_REFRESH_EXPIRES

• Set the expiration time for JWT refresh tokens (e.g., 1d, 1y).

JWT_VERIFICATION_TOKEN_SECRET

• Generate a secret key for signing JWT verification tokens.

JWT_VERIFICATION_TOKEN_EXPIRATION_TIME

• Set the expiration time for JWT verification tokens (e.g., 21600s for 6 hours).

EMAIL_CONFIRMATION_URL

• Set the URL where users will be redirected to confirm their email addresses.

JWT_FORGOT_PASSWORD_TOKEN_SECRET

• Generate a secret key for signing JWT forgot password tokens.

JWT_FORGOT_PASSWORD_TOKEN_EXPIRATION_TIME

• Set the expiration time for JWT forgot password tokens (e.g., 21600s for 6 hours).

FORGOT_PASSWORD_URL

• Set the URL where users will be redirected to reset their passwords.

MAIL_HOST

• Set the hostname of your email server (e.g., smtp.example.com).

MAIL_USER

• Set the email address or username for authenticating with your email server.

MAIL_PASSWORD

• Set the password for authenticating with your email server.

MAIL_FROM

• Set the "From" email address that will be used for sending emails.

🚀 Run Locally

1. If you want to use the docker-compose file:

docker compose up -D

2.Install the dependencies with one of the package managers listed below:

pnpm install

3.Start the development mode:

pnpm start:dev

🧪 Run tests

1. Run unit tests

pnpm test

2. Run coverage

pnpm test:cov