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First thing's first, let's setup our server. (PS: You might want to make sure you have nodejs installed on your machine first)
The majority of the codebases I've worked on over the years have always favoured using JSON web-tokens (JWT) or Authentication-as-a-Service platforms (Auth0, Okta etc) for authentication logic. These are indeed excellent choices! however, on smaller projects I find these to always seem to be overkill. Recently I started working on a chrome extension that performs social sign-in using twitter OAuth API and decided to use passport.js to outsource some of the heavy lifting involved in setting up authentication. Below I walk through the benefits and step-by-step guide in getting started with passport.js for authentication