User Authentication with the MEAN Stack

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User Authentication with the MEAN Stack

Configure API Endpoints

With the API we’ve got two things to do:

  1. make the controllers functional
  2. secure the /api/profile route so that only authenticated users can access it

Code the Register and Login API Controllers

In the example app, the register and login controllers are in /api/controllers/authentication.js. In order for the controllers to work, the file needs to require Passport, Mongoose and the user model:

const mongoose = require('mongoose');const passport = require('passport');const User = mongoose.model('User');

The Register API Controller

The register controller needs to do the following:

  1. take the data from the submitted form and create a new Mongoose model instance
  2. call the setPassword method we created earlier to add the salt and the hash to the instance
  3. save the instance as a record to the database
  4. generate a JWT
  5. send the JWT inside the JSON response

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