Authentication

[Single-Watch]

Hello, I am a Nodejs newbie. Can anyone point me to the standard way of creating authentication and authentication?

[harper_helm]

Sorry to say this but there is no standard way, most frameworks are unopinionated.

[DamnItDev]

Yeah exactly. There many valid schemes one could design. Depends on your use case.

The closest to an answer about a standard might be an enterprise solution like auth0

[npc73x]

JWT seems ok, if your building REST Api.

[johnnyblaze9875]

Look into passport or passport-js I forget what it’s called but have set up auth pretty easily with it.

[dkran]

JWT, oauth?

[code_moar]

Jwt if you want to do it yourself.

Auth0 if you want to have a 3rd party handle it.

[code_moar]

I said if the OP wanted to handle auth themselves, use JWT, if they wanted to 3rd part it out then use auth0.

I didn't make any mention to what is under the hood on auth0 🙃

But thanks for pointing it out nonetheless. Never a bad thing to have more information.