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Lesson 23. Building a user login and hashing passwords

In lesson 22, you added flash messages to your controller actions and views. In this lesson, you dive deeper into the User model by creating a sign-up and login form. Then you add a layer of security to your application by hashing users’ passwords and saving your users’ login state. Next, you add some more validations at the controller level with the help of the express-validator package. By the end of this lesson, a user should be able to create an account, have their password saved securely in your database, and log in or log out as they like.

This lesson covers

• Creating a user log-in form
• Hashing data in your database with bcrypt

Consider this

You deliver a prototype of ...