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Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications

You're reading from  Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788477321
Pages 764 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Daniel Li Daniel Li
Profile icon Daniel Li

Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
1. The Importance of Good Code 2. The State of JavaScript 3. Managing Version History with Git 4. Setting Up Development Tools 5. Writing End-to-End Tests 6. Storing Data in Elasticsearch 7. Modularizing Our Code 8. Writing Unit/Integration Tests 9. Designing Our API 10. Deploying Our Application on a VPS 11. Continuous Integration 12. Security – Authentication and Authorization 13. Documenting Our API 14. Creating UI with React 15. E2E Testing in React 16. Managing States with Redux 17. Migrating to Docker 18. Robust Infrastructure with Kubernetes 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

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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