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Sign upHi, I'm Dave, a JavaScript teacher here at Treehouse. 0:00 In this course, you'll learn how to add authentication to an Express application. 0:04 In other words, you'll learn how to add user registration and 0:08 login to a web application. 0:11 Visitors can create an account on your site, log into your site, and 0:13 see personalized information based on their user profile. 0:16 We'll add authentication to a fictional booklet or site named, Bookworm. 0:20 We'll add a registration form, a log in form, and a personalized profile page that 0:24 shows information specific to the logged in user. 0:28 In the process, 0:32 you'll learn how to use Mongoose to connect with the MongoDB database. 0:33 How to write custom express middleware, and how sessions and cookies work. 0:36 In addition, you'll learn how to manage sessions by adding a custom 0:41 session store that uses Mongo to hold important information for your users. 0:44 When you're done, you'll know a lot more about Express and 0:49 Mongo and you'll have built a fully functioning authentication system. 0:52 Join me in exploring user authentication with Express and MongoDB. 0:56
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