How to use PassportJS for authentication in NodeJS

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Okta

The majority of the codebases I've worked on over the years have always favoured using JSON web-tokens (JWT) or Authentication-as-a-Service platforms (Auth0, Okta etc) for authentication logic. These are indeed excellent choices! however, on smaller projects I find these to always seem to be overkill. Recently I started working on a chrome extension that performs social sign-in using twitter OAuth API and decided to use passport.js to outsource some of the heavy lifting involved in setting up authentication. Below I walk through the benefits and step-by-step guide in getting started with passport.js for authentication.

#Identity And Access Management #Identity Provider #SSO 6 social mentions

We're going to be using EJS as our templating engine so we can dynamically display user content on our website. If you're not quite sure what templating engines are, you can get an idea through on this amazing article.

#Javascript UI Libraries #Development #Front-End Frameworks 20 social mentions

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Auth0

The majority of the codebases I've worked on over the years have always favoured using JSON web-tokens (JWT) or Authentication-as-a-Service platforms (Auth0, Okta etc) for authentication logic. These are indeed excellent choices! however, on smaller projects I find these to always seem to be overkill. Recently I started working on a chrome extension that performs social sign-in using twitter OAuth API and decided to use passport.js to outsource some of the heavy lifting involved in setting up authentication. Below I walk through the benefits and step-by-step guide in getting started with passport.js for authentication.

#Identity And Access Management #Identity Provider #SSO 175 social mentions