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How to do it...

Let's create a /api/login route to authenticate a user using a username and password:

1. First, we will need to create a new /routes/api/login.js route configuration to manage our API authentication. This route configuration will be similar to our /routes/api/posts.js route configuration that contains both a users store of user records and a JSON API serializer configuration:

var express = require('express');var router = express.Router();var JSONAPISerializer = require('jsonapi-serializer').Serializer;var users = [{  id: "1",  firstName: "Nicholas",  lastName: "McClay",  email: "[e-mail]",  password: 'Secret',  role: 'admin'}];var serializer = new JSONAPISerializer('users', {  attributes: ['firstName', 'lastName',