There are many applications of Passport on the internet. In this article, we will briefly explain the process of using Passport for identity authentication and token validation.
Passport is a module used with Express specifically for handling identity authentication. Its principle is to use middleware to independently handle “authentication” as a functionality. It has modules for various third-party authentication providers like Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc.
Built on top of express.js, we’ll implement token-based authentication using passport-local
and passport-jwt
.
In the fast-evolving landscape of web application development, user authentication plays a pivotal role. One of the most widely adopted methods for user authentication is Google Login. However, as of 2023, there have been significant changes in the way Google Login is implemented and integrated into web applications. This introduction will provide an overview of the latest practices and challenges associated with integrating Google Login into your Vue.js application.
In object-oriented programming (OOP), a factory is an object for creating other objects – formally a factory is a function or method that returns objects of a varying prototype or class from some method call, which is assumed to be “new”. More broadly, a subroutine that returns a “new” object may be referred to as a “factory”, as in factory method or factory function. This is a basic concept in OOP, and forms the basis for a number of related software design patterns.