You use Kong to authenticate your API users and you registered your first few manually. Now it's time to automate the process, but you don't have spare time to create a complicated portal for your users, just yet. This API portal would give your users an opportunity to register and get Kong auth credentials to start using your API.
There are two main functions:
- Registration: users can register. That way you have a base of your users.
- Email login and registration: users can register using email and get a confirmation link to their inbox. Only having confirmed the email registration can she get an API key.
- GitHub account login
- Google account login
- Other OAuth integrations are easily added if needed and supported by Meteor (e.g, Facebook)
- Get an API access key (create a Kong authentication key, store it into the Portal's DB and display to the user).
This is a template project. You have to enter your infrastructure information, change branding. Having done this, you can deploy and start using it.
- There are TODO bookmarks throughout the code. Those need to be changed to reflect your infrastructure.
- When freshly installed (or after meteor reset), in the Sign in dropdown you'll find 'Configure xxxx Login' links in red. Follow the instructions to configure the authentication.
- You'll find Airly logos, URLs, etc. They need to be changed to reflect your brand, URLs and other information.
There are several methods of deploying the portal. [1] To make it easy you can use Meteor UP. All you need to do is:
- install Docker on the server
- install Meteor UP locally
- change .deploy/mup.js
- run the deployment as below
cd .deploy
mup deployUX is minimalistic, you won't find a trendy UI here.