This repo is for practice using NodeJS to create user login and hashing passwords.

The sole purpose of this is to demonstrate the usage of NodeJS and bcrypt, in effort to store Usernames and Passwords.

This should NOT be used in real world applications. Credentials can be accessed if hacked into. Yes, the passwords are hashed but it is possible to dycrpt them.

Proper use would include storing the users in a database of some sort.

To get started, here is an outline of a general set up.

#Create Project folder

#Init project npm init -y (setting up environment, 'y' gives all default values for ) #Init package . json

#Install packages used for express server npm i express bcrypt (express is the server, bcrypt will be where we do password hashing and security)

npm i --save-dev nodemon (this is a dev dependency, used for development)

#create a script to start server using nodemon

#create server.js file #set up express here const express = require('express') # constant for express module const app = express() # app for express

app.listen(3000) # listening on port 3000 (localhost) for server

npm run devStart (should do nothing but start the server) (ROUTES NOT YET SET UP)

const users = [] ###NOTE### In real world applications, you want to store this in a database

app.get('/users', (req,res) =>{ res.json(users) }) ###NOTE### In real world applications, you DO NOT want to set up a route that exposes user information

#create request.rest file for REST requests

GET http://localhost:3000/users