Preview the Project

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