Node.js Web Development - Third Edition

Chapter 8. Multiuser Authentication the Microservice Way

Now that our Notes application can save its data in a database, we can think about the next phase of making this a real application, namely authenticating our users. In this chapter, we'll discuss the following three aspects of this phase:

• Creating a microservice to store user profile/authentication data.
• User authentication with a locally stored password.
• Using OAuth2 to support authentication via third-party services. Specifically, we'll use Twitter as a third-party authentication service.

  Note

  It seems so natural to log in to a website to use its services. We do it every day, and we even trust banking and investment organizations to secure our financial information through login procedures ...