Sessions in Node #7 | Authentication in Node.js with Express and sessions | secure password login

This is part 7 of our series in which we cover how to log users by comparing password hashes created by bcrypt.

00:00 - finding users by email and bcrypt password
02:24 - wiring up authentication service with data access object
04:08 - comparing password hashes with bcrypt
06:14 - allowing or blocking login attempts
07:03 - error handling for finding users by email
07:45 - wiring up authentication service with controller
08:50 - logging error messages
09:40 - storing custom data inside session
11:15 - adapting authentication middleware
12:04 - testing cookie-based session implementation with Postman

[arifali]

Great video and awesome series someone could make a production app in a couple hours just by your videos. Keep up the great work!

[melim]

Great,
The big difference between you and other instructors that which is really obvious is that you have a hand on projects experience, am I right ?

[ahmedelgaidi]

Another great video
But we need another playlist about winston.js library
of course if you have time for doing it

[amaraag]

How receive sessionId frontend side? Is SessionId including response automatically?

[bigbadcatbigbcy]

I understand all this but doing authentication with express.sessions and passport is like helll. There is no tutorial neither documents teaching how to use those. Any recommendation where can I learn those?

[juhandvan]

in auth.js(service) why do we need return Promise in case not match or occur error ?
Thank bro

[adarshshrivastava]

alternative for postman for linux user?