Project Title

API made for the IoT Simulator APP in order to get and receive different types of requests

Getting Started

Make sure you have installed:

• Node NodeJS
• MongoDB Atlas or Community Server

Prerequisites

• Run npm install
• If you run locally run the mongodb first using the command mongod and make sure to use the right connection string mongoose.connect("mongodb://localhost/iot-simulator")
• Create a file in the root folder nodemon.json specifying environment variables as follows

{
 "env": {
    "MONGO_ATLAS_PW": "your_mongo_cluster_password",
    "JWT_KEY": "your_JWT_secret"
  }
}

• If you wish to populate the database access the routes and check what routes a available
• Run nodemon index.js nodemon will watch for changes on your code

Installing

Using git

 git clone https://gitlab.com/cristian.cernat97/iot-simulator-api.git

or download the zip file

Testing and Middleware

...soon...

Tested with node version 10.17

Issues that you might encounter:

• Sometimes JWT might create the same token for very old users that results in "Not authorised error" (Just delete the old users): fixes coming.

Built With

• Nodemon Watcher
• Mocha Test Framework
• Mongoose ODM
• MongoDB NoSQL database
• Node NodeJS
• PassportJS Authentication library (multiple strategies)
• JWT JSON Web Token
• Multer Multipart/form-data
• Bcrypt Hashing algorithm for passwords
• CORS Cross Origin Resource Sharing middleware

Contributing

Go ahead blame me for anything I am still learning

Versioning

Version 2.1.0

Authors

• Cristian Cernat - (https://gitlab.com/cristian.cernat97)