Authentication and Full Stack Development

Question 1

What is bookshelf

Answer 1

It is an ORM tool to map javascript code to SQL code.

Question 2

What is a session

Answer 2

A session is a server-side storage of information that is desired to persist throughout the user’s interaction with the web site or web application

Question 3

What is express middleware library to create sessions

Answer 3

express-session

Question 4

What is the encryption mechanism that we use to store password in this project

Answer 4

bcrypt-nodejs

Question 5

What are the 2 processes prior to store your password in the database

Answer 5

salt and hash

Question 6

What is app.use for

Answer 6

This is used to call the middleware specified in the invocation argument

Question 7

What is body-parser use for

Answer 7

To parse the incoming request and make it available under request.body

Question 8

What is response.locals

Answer 8

An object to store data that will only be available specific to a request.