node-rest-api-starter

Setup and run the project

1. Install the required dependencies by the following command

npm install

1. Setup public & private keys for Access and Refresh tokens Open your terminal and type the below commands to create secure private key and extracting public key from the private key. We’re using a 512 bit long key, as the length increases the size of jwt also increases.

Creating private key for access token

openssl genrsa -out private.pem 512

Expected output:

Generating RSA private key, 512 bit long modulus (2 primes)
....................................................+++++
.+++++

Extracting public key for access token

openssl rsa -in private.pem -outform PEM -pubout -out public.pem

Expected output:

writing RSA key

Creating private key for refresh token

openssl genrsa -out privater.pem 512

Expected output:

Generating RSA private key, 512 bit long modulus (2 primes)
....................................................+++++
.+++++

Extracting public key for refresh token

openssl rsa -in privater.pem -outform PEM -pubout -out publicr.pem

Expected output:

writing RSA key

and place these 4 files inside keys directory in root of the project For more info on openssl, click here

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