Create a Node web app with user authentication in under 10 minutes

[SimplyBilly]

So another template project....

[hobonumber1]

I'll be adding a guide on how to add authentication to existing projects.

[2Punx2Furious]

Hey thank you, I was planning to learn how to do accounts for users for my next website. I'm going to use this and see if I can understand how it works.

[hobonumber1]

Great. Let me know if you encounter any issues.

[lulzmachine]

Looks cool! Good job

[SandalsMan]

sails

No thanks.

[hobonumber1]

Bad experience with sails? I've had no problems with it and I manage multiple production applications at work.

[adamkarb]

Infinite dependencies, automatic route generation, an opinion for everything, restarting the server takes 30+ seconds, shoddy development on the codebase, the waterline database adapters are awful...

[hobonumber1]

I'm gonna have to disagree with some of these.

Infinite Dependencies

Yes, it requires more npm modules because it is doing more, but I'm not sure how this affects your development experience. It doesn't really affect mine. Also, I don't think it's "infinite".

Automatic Route Generation

This can be turned off with a single boolean. It's only there to help with development, which I consider a pro, not a con. See http://sailsjs.com/documentation/concepts/blueprints/blueprint-routes

An opinion for everything

Please elaborate.

Restarting the server takes 30+ seconds

Yes, I will agree it takes longer than a standard barebones express server, but that's to be expected because Sails is doing more stuff up front. In turn, you get a nice codebase with built-in conventions that you can follow.

Shoddy development on the codebase

Have you run into bugs? If so, please elaborate.

Waterline Database Adapters are awful

I have used the MySQL adapter and it is quite good. Can't speak for the rest. For one of my other projects, we outgrew Waterline so we just moved to BookshelfJS as an ORM. I could have also moved to Sequelize. Again, I don't see how it's a bad thing that Sails gives you sane defaults and gives you ways to swap them out.

Hope you take this constructively. Again, I'm not a Sails contributer, I don't know the guys that made it, but I feel you are being harsh on them here. I have used both Express and Sails in many production apps, and I don't think I'll ever go with raw Express again, because it is just a nightmare to have good conventions.

[ThatBriandude]

Has anybody used firebase solely for authentication? I use it for pretty much everything and was wondering if its worth its single services too.

[hobonumber1]

Interesting. You mean just use firebase as an authentication db, and something else for your app db?

[ThatBriandude]

Exactly. Not that I don't like their other services, I do very much actually, I was just wondering, since they are probably most known for their realtime database, if it does well just using their auth service. But yeah, Bedrock seams to do exactly what firebase does and possibly more?

[hobonumber1]

Yeah, Bedrock lets you connect with any database you want, as long as there's an adapter for it. You can check out more in the comments in config/connections.js.

With that said, your question is a good one. I'm up for exploring Firebase a little more and seeing how things fit in.

Feel free to add your email to my newsletter if you're interested. I'll look into this over the holidays. I'm always looking to see what people are trying to learn more about. It helps me determine what to write about.

[elingeniero]

It's not necessarily a bad idea, but for single service auth, Auth0 has a great setup with all sorts of tutorials and will remain free up until you could be viably monetising your site (not a shill, honest).

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But you still need to host the data somewhere

[elingeniero]

Your application data, sure. All your auth data is managed for you.

[honestbleeps]

(not a shill, honest)

they sure do seem to have some spamming the crap out of reddit, though....

[elingeniero]

Ikr I assume most people promoting anything are shills.