20 - Authentication with Socket.IO - Advanced Node and Express - freeCodeCamp

We can't access the user information from the request body through socket, but we can add some other middlewares to socket to make it available.

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00:00 - Why we can't use req.user 00:25 - Mounting passport.socket.io Access passport.js user information from a socket.io connection. https://github.com/jfromaniello/passport.socketio 01:53 - How this works 02:18 - Where we can see the user information 03:06 - Explanation of 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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