Express authentication template using Passport + flash messages + custom middleware

• Sequelize user model / migration
• Settings for PostgreSQL
• Passport and passport-local for authentication
• Sessions to keep user logged in between pages
• Flash messages for errors and successes
• Passwords that are hashed with BCrypt
• EJS Templating and EJS Layouts

When we are finished with this boilerplate, we are going to make it a template on Github that will allow us to create a new repo on Github with all this code already loaded in.

• Go to github.com and create a new repository. In the template dropdown, choose this template.
• Clone your new repo to your local machine
• Get Codin'!

The .keep files are there to maintain the file structure of the auth. If there is a folder that has nothing in it, git won't add it. The dev work around is to add a file to it that has nothing in it, just forces git to keep the folder so we can use it later.

npm install

(Or just npm i for short)

Remove defaulty type stuff. Some areas to consider are:

• Title in layout.ejs
• Description/Repo Link in package.json
• Remove boilerplate's README content and replace with new project's readme

Using the sequelize command line interface, you can create a new database from the terminal.

createdb <new_db_name>

• Change the database name
• Other settings are likely okay, but check username, password, and dialect

For example, if your project requires a birthdate field, then don't add that in there.

When changing your models, update both the model and the migration.

sequelize db:migrate

• SESSION_SECRET: Can be any random string; usually a hash in production
• PORT: Usually 3000 or 8000

nodemon

or

node index.js