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MERN Stack Authentication Tutorial (Part 1 - The Backend)

SalarC123 on June 24, 2021

This tutorial will be split into two parts because its a lengthy, although relatively straightforward, process, so stay tuned for the second part t...
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Andrew Brower •

This blog post is excellent and really breaks the process down nicely. Thank you for taking the time to do this!

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Winnie Nyambura •

Well explained, much thanks!

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kangelkov •

You've lost me from the article when I saw that you're saving the JWT's in the localStorage.

Best way would be to use a http-only cookie to save the JWT on user's end. Please, refrain from those bad practices! :)

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Rahul •

agree!

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Tiago Miranda •

Hi Salarc, this outcome is expected?

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I went to pick the token here, after emulating the login behavior

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El-amiir •

Love It Thanks.

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Romil Jain •

Thanks man, Really easy to understand

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KaramSahoo •

Really helpful!

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Ricardo Maya •

Thanks for the post I thought it was very well articulated and helpful!

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Amar Krishna •

Amazing tutorial

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zukhrofy abbar •

in "Verify JSON Web Token" part, did you mean env.JWT_SECRET?

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Geno Ureta •

where is the .env file?

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SalarC123 •

You create your own .env file. You don't want to share this online because it has your secret environment variables