Create Users

Authentication

Authorization

Passport

Simple Authentication

• Passport-Local
• Passport Middleware
• Req.User….

Passport Middleware

Simple Authentication

• Passport.initialize()
• Passport.session()
• Express session

Passport User Functions

User Management in the Session

• passport.serializeUser()
• passport.deserializeUser()
• passport-local

Secured Routes

Real-time networking with NodeJS

What is WebSocket?

Full-duplex communication over TCP for web browsers and servers

WebSocket

• BI-Directional
• Persistent tunnel
• Proxy/Firewall friendly
• Standards based

WebSocket

Solves many bi-directional problems on the web

• Depends on modern browsers
• Relies on HTTP for handshake only
• Rely on libraries to simplify the raw features

What is Socket.io?

Enabling real-time apps in browser (and mobile)

Socket.io is an abstraction over different transports including Websockets

Effectively Signalr for NodeJS

Socket.io

Simplifies creating communications and multicasting in real-time

• Server and client libraries work together
• Works side-by-side with Express or other frameworks
• Works well with Angular, React too