API BOILERPLATE Symfony 4.2, MySQL & JWT Authentication

This project is to help people to start a fast API

Requirements

PHP, MySQL, Git, Composer, openssl

Symfony has a build-in web server you do not need Apache or Ngnx to run this project. Thanks Symfony :)

Install with composer

Change (my-project-name) with the name of your project

$ composer create-project gasparteixeira/api-boilerplate my-project-name

Check it out

cd my-project-name
$ php bin/console cache:clear

Environment

1. Open the file .env and configure your database connection (user, password and database_name)

DATABASE_URL=mysql://user:[email protected]:3306/database_name

2. For security reasons, change this password

JWT_PASSPHRASE=boilerplate #change this password name and use the same password when you are generating the ssh keys 

3. Basic Auth, change username and password

// config/services.yml
parameters:
    app_username: boilerplate
    app_password: S3cr37W0rd

Generate SSH keys

use the same password you defined in .env, when asked for it

$ mkdir -p config/jwt # For Symfony3+, no need of the -p option
$ openssl genrsa -out config/jwt/private.pem -aes256 4096
$ openssl rsa -pubout -in config/jwt/private.pem -out config/jwt/public.pem

Creating database

execute the command line to create your database

$ php bin/console doctrine:database:create

make migrations

$ php bin/console make:migration

lets commit the migration (it will create a table called user)

$ php bin/console doctrine:migrations:migrate

Load fixtures

add an user (src/DataFixtures/UserFixtures) to make the test

$ php bin/console doctrine:fixtures:load

Running

$ php bin/console server:run

Testing

You can test it using Postman or through the terminal with curl using the username and password you defined in config\services.yml

curl -X POST -H "Authorization: Basic $(echo -n [email protected]:12345 | base64)" http://localhost:8000/api/token

Response must start like:

{ "token":"eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiJ9.eyJpYXQiOjE1NTE4MjAwNzEsImVtYWlsIjo.. " }

PHPUnit

$ php bin/phpunit

API documentation

Go to http://localhost:8000/api/doc More stuff check out https://symfony.com