Chapter 2: User Authentication with the MEAN Stack
by Simon Holmes & Jeremy Wilken
In this article, we’re going to look at managing user authentication in the MEAN stack. We’ll use the most common MEAN architecture of having an Angular single-page app using a REST API built with Node, Express and MongoDB.
When thinking about user authentication, we need to tackle the following things:
- let a user register
- save their data, but never directly store their password
- let a returning user log in
- keep a logged in user’s session alive between page visits
- have some pages that can only been seen by logged in users
- change output to the screen depending on logged in status (e.g. a “login” button or a “my profile” button).
Before we dive into the code, let’s ...
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