23 - Authenticating Node.js Applications With Passport¶

Introduction 1 ¶

Passport is authentication middleware for Node.js. Extremely flexible and modular, Passport can be unobtrusively dropped in to any Express-based web application.

Authentication Strategies¶

Passport provides us with 140+ authentication mechanisms to choose from. You can authenticate against a local/remote database instance or use the single sign-on using OAuth providers for Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc.

All these strategies are independent of each other and packaged as separate node modules which are not included by default when you install Passport’s middleware

npm install passport

For using the Local Authentication Strategy, we need to install the passport-local module

npm install passport-local

Tutorial 2 ¶

Here is the link of how to use Passport to implement an express-based web application.

In this tutorial, it use express-generator to build a project and use mongodb to be its database.

Summary¶

I think Passport is a very powerful module in authenticatation,so I’m trying to use it in my note-taking system. Now I have a good begin that I finish the method of login and register. Next step is combining it in my system.

Reference¶

1: : http://passportjs.org/
2: : https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/authenticating-nodejs-applications-with-passport–cms-21619