Express Authentication

Express authentication template using Passport + flash messages + custom middleware

What it includes

• Sequelize user model / migration
• Settings for PostgreSQL
• Passport and passport-local for authentication
• Sessions to keep user logged in between pages
• Flash messages for errors and successes
• Passwords that are hashed with BCrypt
• EJS Templating and EJS Layouts

User Model

Column Name	Data Type	Notes
id	Integer	Serial Primary Key, Auto-generated
name	String	Must be provided
email	String	Must be unique / used for login
password	String	Stored as a hash
createdAt	Date	Auto-generated
updatedAt	Date	Auto-generated

Default Routes

Method	Path	Location	Purpose
GET	/	server.js	Home page
GET	/auth/login	auth.js	Login form
GET	/auth/signup	auth.js	Signup form
POST	/auth/login	auth.js	Login user
POST	/auth/signup	auth.js	Creates User
GET	/auth/logout	auth.js	Removes session info
GET	/profile	server.js	Regular User Profile

Steps To Use

1. Create a new repo on Github and use your 'express-authentication' as the template

When we are finished with this boilerplate, we are going to make it a template on Github that will allow us to create a new repo on Github with all this code already loaded in.

• Go to github.com and create a new repository. In the template dropdown, choose this template.
• Clone your new repo to your local machine
• Get Codin'!

2. Delete any .keep files

The .keep files are there to maintain the file structure of the auth. If there is a folder that has nothing in it, git won't add it. The dev work around is to add a file to it that has nothing in it, just forces git to keep the folder so we can use it later.

3. Install node modules from the package.json

npm install

(Or just npm i for short)

4. Customize with new project name

Remove defaulty type stuff. Some areas to consider are:

• Title in layout.ejs
• Description/Repo Link in package.json
• Remove boilerplate's README content and replace with new project's readme

5. Create a new database for the new project

Using the sequelize command line interface, you can create a new database from the terminal.

createdb <new_db_name>

6. Update config.json

• Change the database name
• Other settings are likely okay, but check username, password, and dialect

7. Check the models and migrations for relevance to your project's needs

For example, if your project requires a birthdate field, then don't add that in there.

When changing your models, update both the model and the migration.

8. Run the migrations

sequelize db:migrate

9. Add a .env file with the following fields:

• SESSION_SECRET: Can be any random string; usually a hash in production
• PORT: Usually 3000 or 8000

10. Run server; make sure it works

nodemon

or

node index.js