Managing State in Node.js Using express-session and bcrypt (Episode 1)

⭕ Overview
Hello, this is Christian. In this video, we're going to explore sessions in Node.js. Before diving into the technical details, let's understand the importance of sessions in web applications.
Imagine you have a website with both public and restricted content. The public pages are accessible to everyone, but you have certain sections that you want to keep private, only accessible to authenticated users. Without a proper session management system, every time a user navigates to a different restricted page, they would need to log in again, which can be very frustrating and inconvenient.
Sessions solve this problem by maintaining a user's login state across multiple pages. When a user logs in, a session is created, allowing them to access all restricted content without needing to log in again for each page. This seamless access significantly improves the user experience.
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to implement session management in a Node.js application. We'll start by setting up a basic login system and then extend it to create and manage user sessions. This will involve using session middleware to handle the session creation and storage.
We'll also look at practical examples of securing different pages, ensuring that only authenticated users can access certain information. By the end of this video, you'll have a solid understanding of how sessions work and how to implement them in your Node.js applications to enhance security and usability.
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Episode 1: Create sessions to show/hide content using the express-sessions and cookie-parser modules.
Episode 2: Creating login, logout and registration pages and hash/unhash passwords into/from a PostgreSQL database.
Episode 3: Hash/unhash passwords into/from a MongoDB database.
⭕ Chapters
0:00 - Introduction
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[@drearyhope1306]

Hey sir, great video! Is there any chance for you to make some videos about authorization, like role based maybe?

[@ChristianHur]

Good suggestion. I’ll have to think about that. Thanks for watching and your feedback.