Back-end server that handles authentications and permissions. Main functions are:
- It issues JWT (Javascript Web Token) to other back-end servers, UI and raspberry pi clients.
- It allows creation of new users, enabling/disabling access, changing permissions and more.
I suggest you first read about the different components of the home automation application.
This will help you understand better the general architecture and different functions of the system.
Click here and follow the installation instructions for the server micro-service, before moving to the next step.
AUTH_PRIVATE_KEY (required): Generated private key. Public key should be shared with the authentication server. See here.
AUTH_PUBLIC_KEY (required): content of auth server's publickey.
COOKIES_APITOKEN_DOMAIN (required): Your website url. Example my-domain.com
DATABASE_URL (required): url to postgres database. Default: postgres://postgres:@localhost/home_automation
NODE_ENV (required): set up the running environment. Default: production. production will enforce encryption using SSL and other security mechanisms.
PORT (required): server's port. default: 3001
POSTGRESPOOLMIN (required): postgres pool minimum size. Default: 2
POSTGRESPOOLMAX (required): postgres pool maximum size. Default: 10
POSTGRESPOOLLOG (required): postgres pool log. Values: true/false. Default: true
SESSION_SECRET (required): Secret to use in order to encrypt the session cookie data. Default: if NODE_ENV = production => none, otherwise: This is session secret
TOKEN_EXPIRES_IN_MINUTES (optional): // default: 5.
MAX_FAILED_LOGIN_ATTEMPTS (optional): // default: 10.
UI_URL (required): url to the UI server. Default: if NODE_ENV = production => none, otherwise: http://localhost:3000