Building Secure User Authentication in Node.js

Table of Contents

• Introduction


• Install Dependencies


• Generate JWT Token


• Register User


• Authenticate User

For this series, I'm following an excellent video tutorial from Traversy Media

Introduction

To get started with user registration and authentication, we'll begin by installing the necessary dependencies. Specifically, we'll use the bcryptjs library to securely store user passwords as hashes, and the jsonwebtoken library to generate JSON Web Tokens (JWT) for user authentication.

Install Dependencies

Firstly, let's install the required libraries:

npm i bcryptjs
npm i …

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