Nest.js Brings TypeScript to Node.js and Express

This repository accompanies the Nest.js Brings TypeScript to Node.js and Express article on Auth0's blog. Head there to learn about SQLAlchemy ORM.

List of Commands

To run the application, just issue:

node index

To fetch an access_token from Auth0, first we need to set three variables: CLIENT_ID, CLIENT_SECRET, AUTH0_DOMAIN. These variables have to be copied from our Client on Auth0's management dashboard:

# DO change these
CLIENT_ID=1jgwQXJ1MGS7FoGzmyNyPGwzsoBGjgzv
CLIENT_SECRET=etIijATVlYQRvMV7kul-qqKqiuplK6GETdNcEAn2nQgxPmwZCS9pDC1tvjRBkWNe
AUTH0_DOMAIN=bkrebs.auth0.com

After that, we can submit a request to Auth0's endpoint to get an access_token:

JWT=$(curl -X POST -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{
    "client_id": "'$CLIENT_ID'",
    "client_secret": "'$CLIENT_SECRET'",
    "audience": "http://localhost:3000/",
    "grant_type": "client_credentials"
}' https://$AUTH0_DOMAIN/oauth/token  | jq '.access_token')

With this token, we can issue requests to secured endpoints:

# issuing GET request to fetch companies
curl -H 'authorization: Bearer '$JWT http://localhost:3000/companies