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Secure Web Development - Backend

This repo contains an Express app, it will be the backend used for the semester.

👷 Prerequisites

  1. Fork this repository then clone it on your computer
  2. Install Insomnia (or your API Testing tool of choice) and import the collection provided in insomnia-collection.json
  3. If you don't have one, create a DB on Mongo Atlas
  4. Create an .env file containing (replace with your data):

    MONGO_URI=mongodb+srv://USERNAME:PASSWORD@CLUSTER_URL/paris-films?retryWrites=true&w=majority

    JWT_SECRET=your-jwt-secret

  5. Install NodeJS
  6. Install dependencies : npm install
  7. If you dont have data in your DB:
    1. Download the public dataset (OpenData) given by French gov and the city of Paris, named "Lieux de tournage à Paris"
    2. Put the dataset at the root of this repository, named lieux-de-tournage-a-paris.json
    3. Run the import script with npm run import
  8. Run the backend npm start

Quick information

This backend connects to a MongoDB Database containing locations of film sets in Paris, France.

Consulting locations requires an account. Creating, updating and deleting locations requires elevated privileges.

There are 2 access level: user and admin. Each user have a role property to store this data.

Users can authenticate themselves with a Json Web Token, obtained by logging-in with their username and password.

Passwords are hashed, and the hashes are never shown in API responses.