Users management in node js with express, mongodb as server database [closed]

Question

Looking for the way to add user management to my site.

Site: Working with Node.js & Express, when creating the initial project with Express, the app.js file contains these lines:

app.use('/', routes);
app.use('/users', users);

In addition, a file users.js is created under routes folder. My question is how to manage users, force login, and show different views for regular user / admin user. I wish to find a simple example / tutorial.

Storage: Working with MongoDB & mongoose, I noticed the database has Users folder built-in. I want to save users data (user + password + preference) on MongoDB. What is the way to do this?

Thresher

You could use Passport JS for this. Follow this tutorial for more details and this GitHub repo. – Noddle

Is there a way to do so in express? I'm not interested in security, I prefer simplicity. (This is a site in a private net). It looks like express set the ground for it, I just couldn't find any example. – Thresher

Not sure if that can be done entirely in express though Stormpath (or tutorial here) looks like what you need. – Noddle

Of course you COULD do it in express only but you'd have to write all the stuff again that is in libraries like passport or stormpath – Threepence

Look up "express-user" and "express-user-local" on the npm registry. Keep in mind that atm, they are still alpha and subject to frequent backward breaking changes. – Roden

Answer 1

I followed this tutorial. https://scotch.io/tutorials/easy-node-authentication-setup-and-local

Passport js does the job very nicely, doing this without a library would just require you to reinvent the wheel.

Iyre

The link no longer works – Sulphurous

Thanks for the notice, fixed :) – Iyre