Integrating Express-Session and Passport.js | Node Auth Tut - Part 5

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We know sessions are a place in which we can store data on our app's backend. We also know that session packages typically return to the user a cookie that associates them with their corresponding session. However, what we don't know is how to use a session to "log a user in" to our app.

When it comes to logging a user in, we need to have some way to test whether or not the cookie within a user's browser matches up with the session created within our app's backend. Integrating this yourself can be a little tricky, but it's much easier when using something like Passport.js. Passport.js is able to determine whether or not a user is logged in based on the sessions our app possesses. Learn how to combine Passport.js with express-session to finally create a user that's deemed "logged in."


Video Timeline:
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00:00 - Installing express-session
05:55 - Installing Passport.js
07:26 - Adding a login function to user registration
11:00 - Integrating sessions with passport.js (serialize and deserialize user)
15:18 - Viewing session authentication data in the console
16:00 - Why we need to add session storage to our database when developing


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