In this challenge, you build a real wise-guy application. Dad jokes are all the rage these days. Currently the application is trying to receive some Dad Jokes
, however we are locked out.
Read these instructions carefully. Understand exactly what is expected before starting this Sprint Challenge.
This is an individual assessment, please work on it alone. It is an opportunity to demonstrate proficiency in the concepts and objectives introduced and practiced in preceding days.
If the instructions are not clear, please seek support from your TL and Instructor on Slack.
The Minimum Viable Product must be completed in three hours.
Follow these steps to set up and work on your project:
- Create a forked copy of this project.
- Add your Team Lead as collaborator on Github.
- Clone your forked version of the Repository.
- Create a new Branch on the clone: git checkout -b
firstName-lastName
. - Implement the project on this Branch, committing changes regularly.
- Push commits: git push origin
firstName-lastName
.
Follow these steps for completing your project.
- Submit a Pull-Request to merge
firstName-lastName
branch intomaster
on your fork. Please don't make Pull Requests against Lambda's repository. - Please don't merge your own pull request.
- Add your Team Lead as a Reviewer on the Pull-request
- Your Team Lead will count the challenge as done by merging the branch into master.
Commit your code regularly and use descriptive messages. This helps both you (in case you ever need to return to old code) and your Team Lead.
Demonstrate your understanding of this week's concepts by answering the following free-form questions. Edit this document to include your answers after each question. Make sure to leave a blank line above and below your answer so it is clear and easy to read by your project manager.
-
What is the purpose of using sessions?
the purpose of using sessions is to be able to determine if a user has logged in. The logged in user can unlock components or endpoints that needs a session to be accessed
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What does bcrypt do to help us store passwords in a secure manner.
it hashes the password however many times you want. Basically it makes your password into a long random string
- What does bcrypt do to slow down attackers?
While attackers could figure out your password, with time (sometimes a long time) bcrypt slows them down since it hashes and rehashes the uesr password however many times you decide for it to be rehashed
- What are the three parts of the JSON Web Token?
header, payload, signature
Implement an User Authentication System. Hash user's passwords before saving them to the database. Use JSON Web Tokens
or Sessions and Cookies
to persist authentication across requests.
- Implement the
register
andlogin
functionality inside/auth/auth-router.js
. Auser
hasusername
andpassword
. Both properties are required. - Implement the
authenticate
middleware inside/auth/authenticate-middleware.js
. - Write a minimum o 2 tests per API endpoint. Write more tests if you have time.
Note: the database already has the users table, but if you run into issues, the migrations are available.
Build a front end to show the jokes.
- Add a React client that connects to the API and has pages for
Sign Up
,Sign In
and showing a list ofJokes
. - Once you have the functionality down, style it!