Authentication and Security Exercise

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Exercise included in The Complete Web Development Bootcamp 2021 with Angela Yu

📜 Description:

Build a page where the user can log in to see secrets that otherwise would not be accessible, and commit anonymous secrets to that page.

🏁 Goals:

Get a deeper understanding of Node, Express and MongoDB, get to know different levels of security.

✔️ What I did:

• Set up the database
• Backend using Node.js and Express
• Check my solution to Angela's way of solving it and iteration on my code

📕 Learnings:

• How to increase security - from encrypting, .env, hashing and salt rounds to oauth
• Very briefly how to use cookies to allow the user to stay signed in
• Deeper knowledge of Node.js, Express and MongoDB

💻 Tech used in this specific repository:

• Node.js
• Express
• EJS
• MongoDB
• Mongoose
• Passport