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User Authentication With Express and Mongo

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2:02 with Dave McFarland and Jonathan Foster

We'll be using Express and MongoDB to add user authentication to a web application named Bookworm — a website for book lovers. In this video, you'll see the completed project that you'll build including a registration form, login form, and a password protected profile page.

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    We'll be using Express and MongoDB to build our authentication system. 0:00
    Express is a popular web application framework written in Node.js. 0:05
    It provides many features you'll need when creating a web application. 0:09
    MongoDB is a document-based NoSQL database. 0:13
    We'll use Express to manage the web application and 0:18
    Mongo to store user information like email and password. 0:21
    In this course, we'll take a basic website and add a way for 0:25
    users to create an account log in and access a password protected page. 0:28
    Let's take a look at the completed application so 0:33
    you can see what you'll have created by the end of this course. 0:35
    Here's the beginning of a web application called Bookworm. 0:39
    It's for lovers of books. 0:42
    Well okay the site isn't a real web application. 0:43
    It's just the skeleton of a site that I'll use to teach you how to add user 0:45
    authentication. 0:49
    The home page is simple. 0:51
    Here's a nav bar with various links to other pages on the website and 0:52
    a button to log in. 0:56
    If we click on links to other pages, 0:58
    you'll notice that some are accessible without logging in, like About Us and 1:00
    Contact Us, but the MY PROFILE page here requires me to log in. 1:04
    Now, but before I can do that, I need to create an account, 1:09
    need to provide some information like my name, my e-mail address, my favorite book. 1:12
    Password, confirm that password and then click Sign up. 1:19
    This creates a new user and logs me into the site. 1:25
    When I visit the My Profile page you'll see that the web application 1:29
    knows who I am. 1:32
    But if I log out, visit My Profile I no longer see my profile information. 1:34
    That's because I'm no longer an authenticated user. 1:40
    But I simply log in again, And there's all my information. 1:43
    That's the basics of what we'll be building in this course. 1:50
    In the next video I'll show you how to set up the project so you can follow along. 1:55
    I'll also step you through the structure of the project. 1:58
    Let's go. 2:01

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