Introduction to Passport.js and JSON Web Tokens

By the end of this chapter, we’ll be able to do the following:

• Implement sign-up and login functionalities for our Express Recipes API.
• Authenticate application users’ requests using Passport.js and JSON Web Tokens.

Passport.js overview

Passport.js is an easy-to-integrate middleware used for authentication.

Passport.js offers various authentication mechanisms (known as strategies) as individually-packaged modules. Currently, more than 500 authentication strategies exist in the Passport.js ecosystem. Strategies include verifying a username and password, delegated authentication using OAuth, and federated authentication using OpenID.

In this chapter, we’ll use the ...