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Hey look! OAuth is getting spiffed up a bit. The original OAuth 2.0 specification was released in October 2012 as RFC 6749. It replaced OAuth 1.0, released in April 2010. There have been some extensions over the years. A new OAuth specification has b...
To create a userToken, we need the token payload and the secret key after which it returns the token. const token = jwt.sign(data, "secretkey"); Instead of hard-coding the word secretKey (or any word) as a secret key, is it a good practice to user p...
Over the years, I have been able to adopt an interesting approach to register a user as well as log in the user. Am delighted to share a few decision that has worked for me and I find useful and worthwhile. And I hope to get comments and more insight...
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Introduction Every developer at any point of his development process is faced with the inescapable, which is to implement an authentication feature for his application. This task, though has been made easier for us with the abundance of third party a...
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Basically, I wanna authenticate my users creating an account by confirming they are who they say they are. So I want them to upload a copy of their ID (driving license/passport, will expand out to other eventually) to check and verify. Update:The nee...
So, I'm building a login/user management system where business owners can sign up to our services. The problem is how do I know the person signing up actually is the business owner?So far I'm thinking send a unique code through the post and getting t...
The nuxt-auth module works great with local and social media logins but things get messay when you try to exchange social login tokens with your local API token. This article is meant to ease things for you.
After tons of hours spend at this week fighting and understanding react-native. Yesterday i discovered that i need react@15.4.2 and react-native@0.42.3 to implement some interesting library like react-native-router-flux for routering and navigate th...
PassportJS is the most popular library for Node.js today, but it pushes a lot of decision making on to the developer for the sake of flexibility. I find this causes me a lot of decision fatigue because 80% of the time I dont need the flexibility. Wha...
I am using passport in 3 or my NodeJS backend. Sometimes it just doesn't work. It becomes so hard to debug it and it gets on my mind. So I am looking for other alternatives. JWT is definitely on my cards but how to go about it. I have no clue. Can so...
