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How to implement a secure REST API with node.js

October 13, 2022 by Tarik

I’ve had the same problem you describe. The web site I’m building can be accessed from a mobile phone and from the browser so I need an api to allow users to signup, login and do some specific tasks. Furthermore, I need to support scalability, the same code running on different processes/machines. Because users can … Read more

Understanding passport serialize deserialize

September 16, 2022 by Tarik

Where does user.id go after passport.serializeUser has been called? The user id (you provide as the second argument of the done function) is saved in the session and is later used to retrieve the whole object via the deserializeUser function. serializeUser determines which data of the user object should be stored in the session. The … Read more