We’re back with the Node.js authentication tutorial! In part 1, I gave a high-level explanation of how our authentication would work, we created a model for how our users will be stored in MongoDB, and we wrote the endpoints to handle user registration and login. In this part of…

Node.js API Authentication Tutorial Part 1: User Registration & Login

10 July, 2018

Another tutorial series for API authentication in Node.js? Yep! But in this case, we won’t be using JSON Web Tokens (aka JWTs) like pretty much every other tutorial out there, because reasons! I won’t try to convince you that JWTs are bad, nor will I tell you not to use them, we…

Migrating to Gatsby V2

22 June, 2018

A few days ago Gatsby announced the beta release of V2. Along with it came some exciting changes, the most notable ones being the upgrading of some of the main dependencies (React, Babel, and Webpack) to their latest release, and the introduction of StaticQuery. Oh also, I would…

Hello World!

02 June, 2018

This wouldn’t be much of a blog without at least one blog post, so, here is my first blog post—a cliché Hello World post, of course! So, what is this blog about, you might ask yourself? Truth is, I don’t have a very specific answer yet! The least I can say at the moment is that I…

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Node.js API Authentication Tutorial Part 2: Sessions and Protected Routes

Node.js API Authentication Tutorial Part 1: User Registration & Login

Migrating to Gatsby V2

Hello World!