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Build and Understand a Simple Node.js Website with User Authentication

Randall Degges on August 17, 2018

Building websites with user authentication and management (login, registration, password reset, etc.), can be a huge pain. As a developer there are...
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Gabriel Vautour

Is there a specific reason for you to have chosen "express-sessions" in this tutorial instead of "client-sessions"? In your talk on "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Web Authentication in Node", which was fantastic, you mentioned that "you were not a fan of 'express-sessions'". Can you explain the difference between the two and why one is better than the other?

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Bella Be • Edited

Kind of strange signup logic okta has, couldn't go till the end, blocked by the server for a non specified reason...