Simple Express Authentication

Dead simple manual authentication for Express Apps - No Passport Required!

• Requirements
• Dependencies
• Database Requirements
• Setup
• Features
• Included
• Not Yet Implemented

Requirements

Dependencies

• Express
• Bcrypt
• Body-Parser
• Cookie-Parser

Database Requirements

• User Documents must have an array to store tokens (strings)
• User Documents must have a unique ID
• User Documents must have a unique field (currently username, maybe swap for email)

Setup

1. Clone/Download the repository and import auth.js and optionally login.html and register.html to your project

2. Import the authenticate function and the authenticationRoutes function, and run authenticationroutes and give it your express app:

   let authenticationRoutes = require("./auth").authenticationRoutes
    let authenticate = require("./auth").authenticate
       
    authenticationRoutes(app)
       

3. Tweak auth.js as desired, and add in the Database Logic

Features

Included

• Password Hashing with Bcrypt

Not Yet Implemented

• Messages to display error messages to users
• Editing Registration Data from Client Side