Sprint Challenge: Authentication - Dad Jokes

Description

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.

Instructions

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 into master 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.

Commits

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.

Self-Study/Essay Questions

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_?

Sessions provide a way to persevere data across requests.  
There is no need to re-enter credentials on every new request the client makes to the server.



What does bcrypt do to help us store passwords in a secure manner.

Bcrypt provides hashing, whch is a 1 way process where we take a 
user password in plain text & translate it into a string that you 
can no longer reverse back into the password.



What does bcrypt do to slow down attackers?

It hashes the information multiple times meaning an attacker needs 
to have the hash, know the algorithm used, and how many rounds were 
used to generate the hash in the first place.



What are the three parts of the JSON Web Token?

` Header
` Payload
` Signature

Minimum Viable Product

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 and login functionality inside /auth/auth-router.js. A user has username and password. 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.

Stretch Problem

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 of Jokes.
• Once you have the functionality down, style it!