Authentication Components Research

We'll be breaking up into groups. Each group will be assigned a component to research and briefly present to the class.

Bcrypt

• What is bcrypt?
• How does bcrypt work?
• How do we use bcrypt in node?

Database Validations (Mongoose or Sequelize)

• What are different types of validations?
• Which ones could be useful?
• How do we use validations?

Database Hooks (Mongoose or Sequelize)

• What is a hook?
• What are different types of hooks?
• How are hooks implemented?

Sessions

• What are sessions?
• What is the difference between sessions and cookies?
• How do we use sessions in express?

Express Middleware

• What is middleware?
• What middleware have we used?
• How do we create our own express middleware?