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-lastNamebranch intomasteron 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?
Session are used to keep track of the user across the server and the routes they request. Sessions can also be used for storing data regarding the user in order to track authenticated users as well.
- What does bcrypt do to help us store passwords in a secure manner.
Bcyrpt uses a hashing algorithm to compute a hash of the users password that we can store in the database in order to prevent malicious users from accessing plain text user passwords.
- What does bcrypt do to slow down attackers?
Bcrypt uses a salt generator that will run 2 to the power of x operations against a random string in order to create an appendage to the hashed password. This prevents hackers from using a rainbow table of known salts.
- What are the three parts of the JSON Web Token?
Header - consists of the algorithm used and the type of token Payload - is the body of the token Signature - a verified signature that is signed by the server
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
registerandloginfunctionality inside/auth/auth-router.js. Auserhasusernameandpassword. Both properties are required. - Implement the
authenticatemiddleware 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 Inand showing a list ofJokes. - Once you have the functionality down, style it!