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We look at how to create an Express server app, and set up a basic route to return a string. We can import express with require(), ...

All data from our database user document will be deserialized into request.user, which we can provide when rendering the profile ...

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To create a registration form, in the POST route, we should create the user's document in the database if it doesn't exist, and then ...

If you're failing this challenge, go to 16mins 2s To get started with our chat app, we need to set up socket, our database ...

We can use middleware to redirect paths to load assets stored in other locations. Middleware can be attached to a path by calling ...

When building an API or Web App, we would need to capture Inputs in our requests. One way to do this is to extract parameters ...

To be able to log in users using a username and password, we have to set up a 'strategy' so that we can use these details to ...

To add functionality to our log out button, we can use the logout() method passport adds to a request to destroy the session cookie ...

This is a full walkthrough for the File Metadata Microservice project on freeCodeCamp. We can install an npm package called ...

To link login forms to our strategies, we can mount a middleware called passport.authenticate() to our POST route. Link to ...

In this short project, we'll be setting up an Oauth strategy that allows users to log into the site using a Github account and provide ...

The main advantage of Template Engines is that we can provide them variables in the render() method to embed into the HTML ...

Now that we have access to User information, we can announce to all clients the users that have entered and left the chat, using ...

So far we have been storing our user's passwords as plain text, which is very dangerous! We need to 'hash' our passwords using ...

This is a full walkthrough for the Request Header Parser Microservice project on freeCodeCamp. We can set up a GET route for ...

We can create our own Middleware functions to intercept routes. We can then work with the request and response as we wish, ...

Two key socket methods emit() and on() allow sending and receiving data between clients and the server. Link to Challenge ...

Passport adds a method to each request called isAuthenticated() which we can use to check if the user is logged in before ...

The final step is to be able to emit and receive chat messages that all clients can see. We can do this by emitting the message to ...

We're gonna clean up our project now by splitting it into 3 files. We can use Node's module.exports and require() functionalities to ...

Don't be an overconfident idiot like me, and you should be fine here! We can avoid setting up multiple routes, and instead chain ...

We'll use the 'passport-github' npm package to create a GithubStrategy which will allow the user to login through GitHub and ...

We can combine all our previous knowledge now to setup a Chai test for a POST request from scratch. Link to Challenge ...

The final thing we need to add is some database functionality and use the profile information obtained from GitHub to create a ...