My contacts at Confetti Cuisine are delighted with the progress on their application. They’ve already started to add new course offerings, manage new subscribers, and spread the word about creating new user accounts. I warn them that although user accounts can be created, the application isn’t ready to handle users securely.
The client and I agree that data encryption and proper user authentication are the way forward, so for my next improvements to the application, I’m going to add a couple of packages that use Passport.js to assist in setting up a secure user-login process. I’ll also add flash messaging so that users can tell after a redirect or page render whether their last operation was successful. Then I’ll add some additional validations with the help of the express-validator middleware package.
By the end of this stage of development, I can comfortably encourage Confetti Cuisine to sign users up for their application. Because the application isn’t yet live online, though, the client will have to run it locally on their machines when users sign up.
For this capstone exercise, I’ll need to do the following:
25.1. Getting set up