authentication-express

This small project implements authentication and security features for the web application made using Node.

Packages Used

• cookie-session: Simple cookie-based session middleware.
• dotenv: Loads environment variables from .env file
• express: Fast node.js network app framework.
• helmet: Help secure Express/Connect apps with various HTTP headers.
• passport: Simple, unobtrusive authentication for Node.js.
• passport-google-oauth20: Google (OAuth 2.0) authentication strategy for Passport.

Getting Started

1. Ensure you have Node installed.
2. Create /.env file with these properites.
   • CLIENT_ID
   • CLIENT_SECRET
   • COOKIE_KEY_1
   • COOKIE_KEY_2
3. Installing packages.

npm install

Running the project

1. On your terminal:

npm start

2. Go to https://localhost:3000/ to see the implementation