Managing User Accounts

Overview

What we will be building

In this Chapter we will be building a User centric application. Topic covered include:

• Setting up and configuring a database
• Writing test with mocha and mongoose
• Creating a User Model
• Managing User sessions
• User authentication
• Sending Emails
• Password Recovery

What we will be using

To accomplish these goals we will be using the following open source projects:

• express - web application framework for node
• node-supervisor - A little supervisor script for nodejs. It runs your program, and watches for code changes, so you can have hot-code reloading-ish behavior, without worrying about memory leaks and making sure you clean up all the inter-module references, and without a whole new require system
• mocha - Mocha is a feature-rich JavaScript test framework running on node and the browser, making asynchronous testing simple and fun
• mongoddb - MongoDB (from "humongous") is a scalable, high-performance, open source NoSQL database
• mongoose - elegant mongodb object modeling for node.js
• Passport - Simple, unobtrusive authentication for Node.js
• should.js - BDD style assertions for node.js -- test framework agnostic
• supertest - Super-agent driven library for testing node.js HTTP servers using a fluent API

Resources

• express
• npm scripts
• node-supervisor
• mocha documentation
• should.js
• npm scripts
• mongoose
• mocha-mongoose