An easiest authentication system on top of NestJS, TypeORM, NEXT.js (v9) and Material UI (v4).

Features

• Cross platform - Mac, Linux and Windows
• Database synchronization with entities - powered by TypeORM
• Server Side Rendering - powered by NEXT.js
• API server - powered by NestJS
• Authentication - powered by Passport
• Material UI design

Technologies

• Hot reloading for the developer experience :)
  • ts-node-dev - Compiles your TS app and restarts when files are modified
  • NEXT.js - The React Framework
• Lang
  • TypeScript - Javascript that scales
• Database
  • PostgreSQL - The World's Most Advanced Open Source Relational Database
• ORM (Object-relational mapping)
  • TypeORM - ORM for TypeScript and JavaScript (ES7, ES6, ES5)
• Server
  • NestJS - A progressive Node.js framework for building efficient, reliable and scalable server-side applications
    • internally using Express - Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js
  • NEXT.js - The React Framework
• Environment variables
  • dotenv - Loads environment variables from .env for nodejs projects
  • dotenv-webpack - A secure webpack plugin that supports dotenv and other environment variables and only exposes what you choose and use.
• User authentication
  • Passport - Simple, unobtrusive authentication for Node.js
• UI framework
  • React - A JavaScript library for building user interfaces
  • NEXT.js - The React Framework
  • Material UI - React components that implement Google's Material Design.

Setup

Database Setup

Ark uses PostgreSQL v11.

For Mac Users

# install postgresql@11
$ brew install postgresql@11

# if you want to start postgresql@11 in startup, try do this
$ brew services start postgresql@11

# [MUST] create user "arkuser" with password "arkpass"
$ createuser -P arkuser

# [MUST] create database "arkdb" owened by "arkuser"
$ createdb arkdb -O arkuser

For Windows Users

Python

Because Ark uses node.bcrypt.js, we need a Python:

• Download an installer at https://www.python.org/downloads/windows
• Install with "Add Python 3.X to PATH" checked

windows-build-tools

• Run npm install --global --production windows-build-tools from an elevated PowerShell or CMD.exe as Administrator

PostgreSQL

• Download an installer at https://www.postgresql.org/download/windows (v11)
• Run the installer with a flag --install_runtimes 0 like this:

> postgresql-11.6-3-windows-x64.exe --install_runtimes 0

pgAdmin

• Download a latest installer at https://www.pgadmin.org/download
• Run the pgAdmin and login with a root user
• Right click Login/Group Roles and Create > Login/Group Role
  • General Panel:
    • Name: arkuser
  • Definition Panel:
    • Password: arkpass
  • Priviledges Panel:
    • Check all Yes
• Right click Databases and Create > Database
  • General Tab:
    • Database: arkdb
    • Owner: arkuser

Application Setup

# prepare `.env` and edit it for your own environments
$ cp .env.example .env

# install dependencies
$ yarn

# development mode
$ yarn dev

# production mode
$ yarn build
$ yarn start

The .env file is like this:

DB_HOST=localhost
DB_PORT=5432
DB_USERNAME=arkuser
DB_PASSWORD=arkpass
DB_DATABASE=arkdb
DB_SYNCHRONIZE=true

APP_PROTOCOL=http
APP_HOST=localhost
APP_PORT=4000
APP_SESSION_SECRET=ark

Production Deployment

With production usages, please use pm2 for Node.js process managements.

# install pm2
$ npm install --global pm2

# run the app "ARK" with the config `ecosystem.config.js`
$ cd ark
$ pm2 start

The example ecosystem.config.js:

module.exports = {
  apps : [{
    name: 'ARK',
    script: '.next/production-server/main.js',
    instances: 1,
    autorestart: true,
    watch: false,
    max_memory_restart: '1G',
    env: {
      NODE_ENV: 'production'
    }
  }]
};

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