New Lesson: Authentication Libraries

[mao-sz]

Lesson: Authentication Libraries

This is for assignment to a member of the Node revamp team.

Lesson overview

Lesson about Authentication libraries.

Lesson outline

The following items define the scope of the lesson. The lesson outline is flexible; you can improve, expand, and omit items whilst writing lesson content (make sure the pull request description mentions that).

• Explain purpose of authentication libraries. Account for:
  • Problems that can arise from rolling your own auth from scratch (the Rails "Sessions, Cookies and Authentication" lesson can be a helpful reference)
  • Benefits to a unified system when implementing multiple auth providers (e.g. username/password login + github login + google login + etc.)
• Introduce examples of authentication libraries, such as (but not necessarily exclusively) PassportJS, better-auth etc.

Acceptance criteria

If the requirements here are not met, the work effort is not complete.

• Lesson conforms to the outline above (unless outline has been modified).
• Lesson follows our Layout Style Guide.

Additional information

Get the lesson template

Download the lesson template using the following command (replace lesson_name with the actual lesson name):

curl -o <lesson_name>.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TheOdinProject/curriculum/main/templates/lesson-template.md 

[mao-sz]

@pine919 this is not a typical issue for assignment but is one for the Node Revamp team. I don't recognise your GH username so if you're on the revamp team, please ping me on Discord

[pine919]

Ok, thank you for your immediate response.

[goran1010]

@mao-sz I'll take on this lesson, if it's available.

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