Awesome
Web API built with Node and Express. It wraps Dropbox's zxcvbn library just in case you need to verify a password's strength on both the client and server with a guarantee of the same result from both.
Environmental config
Node.js must be installed.
Optionally, Docker and/or cURL
Initial app config
npm install
Testing
npm test
Starting app
For normal people
npm start
npm run start:dev for automatic node restart when code changes.
For studs
npm run docker:start
Available API's
POST is required for security reasons. Think of the call as a request to create a strength estimation. API assumes SSL protocol.
POST /zxcvbn
Request body
{
"password": "horsebatterystaple"
}
Returns
zxcvbn result described here
POST /zxcvbn/score
Request body
{
"password": "horsebatterystaple"
}
Returns
{
"score": [0-4]
}
Testing
curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"password":"asdfghgfd"}' http://localhost:3000/zxcvbn/score
Stopping app
Ctrl-c if started with npm start or npm run start:dev
npm run docker:stop if started with npm run docker:start