06 - Authentication Strategies - Advanced Node and Express - freeCodeCamp

To be able to log in users using a username and password, we have to set up a 'strategy' so that we can use these details to authenticate and obtain the user's information.

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00:00 - Introduction 00:18 - Installing passport-local 01:18 - Creating a Local Strategy 02:02 - Getting the User's Document from the Database - db.collection.findOne() Returns one document that satisfies the specified query criteria on the collection or view. If multiple documents satisfy the query, this method returns the first document according to the natural order which reflects the order of documents on the disk. https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/method/db.collection.findOne/ 06:02 - Making Passport Use the Strategy - passport.use() Configure a strategy. Strategies have a "default name" assigned to them, so you don't have to give them a name. https://github.com/jwalton/passport-api-docs#passportusestrategyname-strategy 07:00 - Challenge Solution

-————————————————————————————————————- Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript runtime environment that executes JavaScript code outside a web browser. Node.js lets developers use JavaScript to write command line tools and for server-side scripting—running scripts server-side to produce dynamic web page content before the page is sent to the user's web browser.

Express.js, or simply Express, is a web application framework for Node.js. It is designed for building web applications and APIs. It has been called the de facto standard server framework for Node.js. Express runs between the server created by Node.js and the frontend pages of a web application. Express also handles an application's routing.

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