Authentication Application

A simple authentication application using Authentication Routes, Middleware, Dababase and Passport (Auth) packages without any CSS styling.

Coding Mechanism

• Set up folder structure
• Install needed packages
• Add root route and template
• Add secret route and template
• Create User model
• Configure passport
• Add Register routes
• Add Register form
• Add Login routes
• Add Login form
• Add Logout Route
• Add isLoggedIn middleware

Getting Started and Execution

• The root page will provide options to SignUp, LogIn and SignOut.
• SignUp by creating a username and password and SignOut and LogIn again.
• Include all the dependencies from package.json file.
• Now run node app.js from Cloud9 console.

Built With

• [Node.js] (https://nodejs.org) - JavaScript runtime
• [Express] (https://expressjs.com/) - Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js
• [MongoDB] (https://mongodb.com) - Cross-platform document-oriented database program
• [Mongoose.js] (https://mongoosejs.com/) - MongoDB object modeling for Node.js
• [npm] (https://npmjs.com/) - JavaScript Package manager
• [ejs package] (https://npmjs.com/package/ejs) - Embedded JavaScript templates
• [body-parser package] (https://npmjs.com/package/body-parser) - Node.js body parsing middleware
• [express-session package] (https://npmjs.com/package/express-session) - Creates a session middleware
• [passport package] (https://npmjs.com/package/passport) - Express-compatible authentication middleware for Node.js
• [passport-local package] (https://npmjs.com/package/passport-local) - Passport strategy for authenticating with a username and password.
• [passport-local-mongoose package] (https://npmjs.com/package/passport-local-mongoose) - A Mongoose plugin for building username and password login with Passport.
• [JSON] (https://json.org) - Lightweight data-interchange format
• [Javascript] (https://www.javascript.com/) - High-level, interpreted programming language
• [AWS Cloud9 IDE] (https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/) - Cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE)

Authors

• xjanus (https://github.com/xjanus)

Acknowledgments

• Colt Steele's Bootcamp course