Symfony Skeleton App for REST API

A skeleton application to build a REST-API with Symfony 4. Authentication is based on JSON Web Token.

Installation

• Run composer install
• Build private and public key with passphrase "JWT_PASSPHRASE" from your .env-settings
  • mkdir config/jwt
  • openssl genrsa -out config/jwt/private.pem -aes256 4096
  • openssl rsa -pubout -in config/jwt/private.pem -out config/jwt/public.pem
• Build database with php bin/console doctrine:schema:create
• (Execute php bin/console doctrine:fixtures:load) to load sample user data into database

First steps

• Run php bin/console server:run to start build in webserver
• Post to endpoint to receive token curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/token/create -d _username=muhammad.taqi -d _password=muhammad
• Add Authorization: Bearer {token} to you endpoint-request
• Test the endpoint /api/users/me to get current logged in user as JSON