The SpotifyMERN backend API powers the SpotifyMERN application, a full-stack music streaming platform similar to Spotfy. This API allows users to listening their favorite musics, creating playlists & AWS Cloud Computing for storage & sending emals and more.
The SpotifyMERN backend leverages AWS Cloud Services for various functionalities. Amazon S3 is used for storing and serving musics, including categories, thumbnail images and users' profile pictures.
- Signup & login with secure token
- Storing the musics & thumbnails to AWS Cloud & load them from MongoDB
- Sending reset links to users' email address with AWS SES to reset & update their password more secure
- Structured users'data more secure with mongoose Data Modelling both referencing & embedded
- Encrypting & hashing passwords
- Email validator via both backend API & AWS Cloud
- Verifying JSON Web Token
- Security HTTP headers with helmet
- Rate limitting from the same IP/API
- Data Sanitization against NoSQL injection
- Data Sanitization against XSS
- Maganing & catching errors globally with middleware functions
- Generate expired token
- Sending JWT via cokie
- Restrict/protect some features by secure token
- Dedicate environments to development and production
Please visit here to see the frontend code: SpotifyMERN - Fronted
Authentication is the process of verifying the identity of a user or system. In the context of a back-end application, it ensures that only authorized users can access protected resources. Here are some key considerations for implementing authentication:
Implement a user registration process that collects necessary information, such as username, email, and password. Ensure that password requirements, such as length and complexity, are enforced.
Provide a secure login mechanism using sessions or tokens. Validate user credentials against stored data and generate authentication tokens or session cookies for subsequent requests.
Authorization determines what actions a user can perform within an application. It ensures that authenticated users have the necessary permissions to access or modify specific resources. Consider the following when implementing authorization
Implement role-based access control (RBAC) to assign different permissions to different user roles. For example, an administrator role might have more privileges than a regular user role.
Control access to specific resources based on user roles and ownership. Ensure that users can only access resources they are authorized to view or modify.
Maintaining the security of your application is crucial to protect user data and prevent unauthorized access or data breaches. Consider the following security measures
Store user passwords securely by hashing them with a strong cryptographic algorithm like bcrypt or Argon2. Hashing passwords prevents storing plain-text passwords in the database, making it harder for attackers to retrieve user passwords in case of a data breach.
Enable secure communication between clients and the server using HTTPS/TLS. This ensures that data transmitted over the network is encrypted and protects against eavesdropping and tampering. Obtain and install an SSL certificate to enable HTTPS on your server.
Implement secure session management to track user sessions and prevent session-related attacks such as session hijacking or fixation. Use secure session storage mechanisms, such as server-side storage or encrypted client-side storage (e.g., signed cookies), and regenerate session IDs after user authentication or privilege changes.
Sotarage musics' materials suchs as song files, thumbnasil pictures in AWS Cloud Object Storage
