Create a basic login system using NodeJS, Express, and Javascript

This tutorial uses a boiler-plate Google Chrome Extension setup.

If you want to know how to get that setup,

Check out my write-up here:

Or the video tutorial here:

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Let’s Begin.

We’ll start by creating our REST API.

A very basic Express server with two main routes, ‘/login’ and ‘/logout’.

We’ll need the express package of course.

>>npm init -y
>>npm install express

Note:

We’ve built an “authentication” middle ware function. It just simulates the act of looking up a user’s credentials on a database.

We won’t be creating an entire database for this lesson. Use SQL, MongoDb, whichever you like.

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Let’s do some web development work before we get to actual Chrome Extension work.

We’ll create three pages.

A “Sign In” page, a “Sign Out” page, and a “Welcome Back” page. Nothing fancy

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