Currently, our authentication system require you to use Firebase Authentication.
You're free to use another system if you want to, but you will have to change some parts of the API.
If you choose to use Firebase Authentication, you need to get a service-account-file.json.
Once you have it, copy its content into a FIREBASE_CONFIG environment variable (in your .env file).
After that, each request you make need to be made with an Authorization header and a valid Bearer token:
Authorization: Bearer your-valid-JWT-here
The initialization of the Firebase application is done in the custom-bootstrap.ts file.
You can remove the content of the customBootstrap() function if don't want to use Firebase or change its content to initizalize your own authentication provider.
Lokapp also has its own users table, that's why you need to register yourself into the Lokapp system.
To do so, call POST /api/v1/auth/register with a valid token. The userId and the email read from the JWT will be used to store the user within the Lokapp's databas (see auth-jwt.strategy.ts).
All other protected routes also require a valid JWT. The auth-jwt-user.strategy.ts will decode the token, extract the userId within, and then get the associated user stored in the Lokapp's database.
The Auth - Get token request in the Postman collection stores the JWT in the response into an environment variable.
This sotred token is then injected into each request you made.