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Let's follow these steps to add a User model to our application with secure password handling:

1. First, we will replace our /models/authors.js model configuration with a slightly enhanced /models/users.js model configuration:

var mongoose = require('mongoose');var Schema = mongoose.Schema;var userSchema = new Schema({  firstName:  String,  lastName: String,  email: { type: String, unique: true, required: true },  password: { type: String, required: true },  role: String,});module.exports = mongoose.model('user', userSchema);

2. Next, we will include bcrypt and configure a pre-save method to perform a password hashing function on our password before writing it to the database. We will also implement a custom function for comparing ...