This app is meant to give students experience with building REST APIs with Node, Express, JWT-based auth, Mongo, and Mongoose.

It is also provided as a backend that curriculum contributors, instructors, and students can run locally to build clients that provide a GUI for this API.

Full API spec available here

1. Clone the repo.
2. cd into it.
3. npm install
4. Make sure you have Mongo installed and running locally.
5. Rename the .env.example file to .env. This file sets up any config vars that you'll need to run this app locally.
6. Run node utils/seed-database.js
7. The seed process inserts four users: patuser, bobuser, janeuser, and anonuser with the password password.
8. Run npm start to start the dev server.
9. To access a protected endpoint
   1. POST the username + password to /api/login
   2. Copy the authToken value
   3. Add token Authorization header as a Bearer Token

If you need to zero out the database, you can run node script/dropDatabase.js