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Node.js Web Development

You're reading from   Node.js Web Development Server-side web development made easy with Node 14 using practical examples

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838987572
Length 760 pages
Edition 5th Edition
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David Herron David Herron
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Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to Node.js
2. About Node.js FREE CHAPTER 3. Setting Up Node.js 4. Exploring Node.js Modules 5. HTTP Servers and Clients 6. Section 2: Developing the Express Application
7. Your First Express Application 8. Implementing the Mobile-First Paradigm 9. Data Storage and Retrieval 10. Authenticating Users with a Microservice 11. Dynamic Client/Server Interaction with Socket.IO 12. Section 3: Deployment
13. Deploying Node.js Applications to Linux Servers 14. Deploying Node.js Microservices with Docker 15. Deploying a Docker Swarm to AWS EC2 with Terraform 16. Unit Testing and Functional Testing 17. Security in Node.js Applications 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Providing Twitter login support for the Notes application

If you want your application to hit the big time, it's a great idea to ease the registration process by using third-party authentication. Websites all over the internet allow you to log in using accounts from other services such as Facebook or Twitter. Doing so removes hurdles to prospective users signing up for your service. Passport makes it extremely easy to do this.

Authenticating users with Twitter requires installation of TwitterStrategy from the passport-twitter package, registering a new application with Twitter, adding a couple of routes to routes/user.mjs, and making a small change in partials/header.hbs. Integrating other third-party services requires similar steps.

Registering an application with Twitter

Twitter, as with every other third-party service, uses OAuth to handle authentication. OAuth is a standard protocol through which an application or a person can authenticate with one website by using credentials...

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