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Daniel Li is a full-stack JavaScript developer at Nexmo. Previously, he was also the Managing Director of Brew, a digital agency in Hong Kong that specializes in MeteorJS. A proponent of knowledge-sharing and open source, Daniel has written over 100 blog posts and in-depth tutorials, helping hundreds of thousands of readers navigate the world of JavaScript and the web.
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Implementing password-base authentication


Armed with the knowledge of hashing and salting, we'll now implement a password-based authentication layer on top of our existing API using the bcrypt algorithm. First, we'll need to update our Create User endpoint to accept a bcrypt digest instead of a password. Since we are following TDD, we will update the E2E tests first, before updating the implementation.

Updating existing E2E tests

First, in the Gherkin specifications and Cucumber code, update anything related to passwords to use digests instead; this includes both the step description, step definitions, and sample data. For example, you may make the following changes in the E2E tests for the Bad Client Requests scenario of the Create User feature:

--- a/spec/cucumber/features/users/create/main.feature
+++ b/spec/cucumber/features/users/create/main.feature
@@ -34,9 +34,9 @@ Feature: Create User

     Examples:

- | missingFields | message                          |
- | email         | The '.email...
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Daniel Li is a full-stack JavaScript developer at Nexmo. Previously, he was also the Managing Director of Brew, a digital agency in Hong Kong that specializes in MeteorJS. A proponent of knowledge-sharing and open source, Daniel has written over 100 blog posts and in-depth tutorials, helping hundreds of thousands of readers navigate the world of JavaScript and the web.
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