Go API example with JWT auth

Boiler plate code for APIs protected by username/login and javascript web token with a 10 minute expiry time.

Companion app, which provides the UI for this API server

• https://github.com/feliperyan/react_materialui_boilerplate

Features

• New users get saved to Postgres.
• Set Env Var NEEDS_AUTH=yes on Heroku for auth
• If you want auth also set TOKEN_PASSWORD=yourlongsecretkeyhere so you can generate tokens

Endpoints:

1. api/user/login
2. api/user/new
3. api/quote

The login and new take a JSON payload of {"email": "[email protected]", "password": "valardohaeris"}

While quote requires an Authorisation Header with the Bearer token issued by user creation or log in (if NEEDS_AUTH == yes)

This repo is heavily based on Adigun Olalekan's excellent post here: https://medium.com/@adigunhammedolalekan/build-and-deploy-a-secure-rest-api-with-go-postgresql-jwt-and-gorm-6fadf3da505b

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