Lesson 24. Adding User Authentication
In lesson 23, you learned about manual hashing of passwords and the importance of securing user data. In this lesson, you explore some popular and useful tools that make the hashing process less messy. You modify your hashing methods to use the passport-local-mongoose package, which uses passport and mongoose together to perform hashing for you behind the scenes. Next, you learn how to use Passport.js to authenticate user accounts on your application. This process involves session cookies, similar to the way that flash messages use them. By the end of this lesson, you’ll have a sign-up and login form that permits only true users of your application to have access.
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