Thank you for your comment. While it is true that JWTs haven’t initially been used for sessions, they work perfectly fine in that context as long as certain aspects are considered. By making JWTs revokable, one of their biggest drawbacks is neutralized. Additionally, I am nowhere claiming that JWTs are the only way of implementing sessions; In fact, another tutorial on OAuth2 is already in concept. I simply pointed out how JWTs can be used for sessions and demonstrated a possible implementation. I am aware that using JWTs for sessions is quite controversial throughout the dev community. However, it works - and it works perfectly fine. Therefore, it’s perfectly valid to use them for sessions as long as certain aspects are considered. I encourage you to read more on that here: https://supertokens.io/blog/are-you-using-jwts-for-user-sessions-in-the-correct-way, specifically pointing you to the „The New Approach“ section. The implementation described in my post is simply a variation.

Are you trying to promote this weird website here? Your reply sounds very generic and doesn’t really relate to what has been written in this thread so far. If so, please do everybody a favour and use the project-showcase or something to promote your projects. Sergio Maduto

Hey Sid, I totally understand your desire to build up a cool resume. However, I'm afraid you'll probably not end up with a big one after your freelancer career. You said that you don't want to make hobby projects on your own. Why don't you just look for other dev-newcomers on social media? I'm sure you'll find someone who's going to work with you together on a hobby project. That way, you could gain a lot of teamwork experience - even if the projects aren't too big, you have something to put in your resume. Another important advice: success is good but failure might be better. Don't be afraid to add failed projects to your resume. In a lot of cases, failure results in a much higher lern-effect than success and most companies value that, not mentioning that all of them know you've probably failed a lot of projects in your life. That's normal :) Just make sure you've learned something with every project you add to your resume and state what you've learned. Siddharth Vishvanath (Sid)

Hey Siddharth, there are a lot of platforms like fiverr.com or freelancer.com that mediate between freelancers and clients. In order to "earn a bit of extra money" just sign up on one of those platforms and do what you're good at. Unfortunately, the competition on these platforms is extremely high in almost any field and there are a lot of freelancers that work for "dumping prices". A concrete example would be the design branch: on fiverr, I stumbled across freelancers that offered a basic screendesign for under 5$. Similar trends can be observed for the programming sector on those platforms. Some freelancers code a basic native iOS app for 250$ - obviously, the quality of such an app won't be high-end, but a lot of clients don't need high end stuff and worry about price a lot. It's also worth to know that you'll probably have a hard time offering niche-products on there. Most of the clients on those sites are individuals or small businesses, that search for full-stack solutions instead of e.g. just a Node.js server. But hey, might as well be that you'll have a lot of customers - I'm just talking about my personal experience. So my advice would be to just try it out and offer something you're good with. Just know that competition is huge and pay-off probably won't be too big. Worst case would be that you waste your time creating the profile 🤷‍♂️.

Hey Steven :) I've now finished my tutorial about how to secure a MongoDB server. If you'd like to check it out, you can do so here: https://hologram-codes.hashnode.dev/mongodb-security-and-lockdown-of-your-database-ck6l7xmfm01fgd9s12fidqc5j Thanks again for your comment :)

The fact that Spotify is even listed here with their documentation... 😂

Hey Steven, thanks a lot for your feedback :) I totally agree with you, securing the database is a crucial topic, especially when your app is (or will be) in production one day. I'll definitely have a look at it and include it in one of the following parts of this MongoDB series! Have a nice day :)

StackOverflow, although I have to say that it's a very toxic environment for beginners including a lot of restrictions. Getting started there ain't easy.

Hey there, I'm Linus and really enjoy coding :) Actually, I enjoy it a bit too much; sometimes I really have to pull myself back from diving into three topics at the same time, ending up understanding none of them :/ But hey, imperfect is the new perfect, right?