Adding User Signup | Creating a REST API with Node.js

Time to add authentication to the RESTful API. Let's start with user signup.

----------

----------

See you in the videos!

[codinginflow]

I rarely watch other tutorial channels because they tend to be lazy, unorganized, and incomplete. But yours are super high quality. Thumbs up

[chntGomez]

This is the first time someone actually explains to me why a RESTful API is "Sessionless". KUDOS!

[hippiejosh]

Seriously Max, so many of your courses are incredibly useful to me right now. You may recall a comment of mine in the summer about how useful these were for my internship, and they continue to be integral to my understanding of web apps. It has been so hard for me to find any useful information about implementing JWT and auth, and this has totally summed it up for me.

[meh]

I was on my way finding tutorials on nodejs authentication when I ran through this. Having watched several videos without really understand what mentors were trying to do, your video was such a helper ;) Tkx a lot and wish you the best.

[selimgnaoui]

A million years from now, internet historians will use this channel as their rosetta stone
thank u so much

[sventenhaaf]

Thanks Max, for yet another very clear video! One remark - the (current) version of mongoose (5.10.3) actually does validate uniqueness of a field, and it throws an error with code 11000 if you try to.

[Simbatronix]

First video series i am watching from Max, although i have seen him for past few years.
This is a really amazing instructor and purchasing his new JS course just to show some support!

[nicot]

This is one of the best series I've ever watched anywhere. Thank you Max for sharing all of that!

[mahmoudsouayfan]

The most powerfull nodejs courses I started with you on udemy and I keep finding my solutions with u every where. Thank you !

[vikrantsingh]

this was an amazing tutorial. i have to say, your tutorials are a lot more advanced than netninja or traversy media. i suggest anyone to first watch those beginner level tutorials and then watch academind, to get a better idea. one small suggestion i can give for this tutorial is that you didn't use the gui tools like compass to visualize how the db actually looks like after each operation.

[sukhmandersingh]

If you want email to be different for every user you can just add unique : true parameter to the email field in User model

[jotube]

Ich habe ja schon viele Tutorials gesehen, aber diese toppen alles! Einfach großartig!!

[solmazk]

Hi Max. I have watched a lot of your courses. You are an amazing instructor. Keep up the good work

[sns]

You can also use unique: true in the user model file to store only unique email data.

[stevensonicteam]

You are the best tutor bro. Easy to understand and got to the point.

[timharris]

Thanks for posting this. This is a really good explanation and example of making a user login and validation.

[yavuzkavus]

Thank you, Max. You give other useful information besides main topic.

[elgobert]

I think better practice to deal with errors is to pass them using next(), so that you can handle all errors at just one place in the same way.
if (error) {
err = new Error("error message");
err.status = 500;
next(err);
}
But, to use this way, you must have written the code to deal with errors at a very high level (e, g in app.js)

[zaylo]

actually there is shortcut to change multiple similar words by simply pressing f2 and press enter. hope it helps!

[hadipawar]

"Now as all pro developers we can simply google for email regex" hahahahaha ded your nuance sense of humor is amazing tbh