Full-Stack Web Development with Vue.js and Node

Building Authentication with passport.js Chapter 6

Creating a User model

We don't have a collection yet to manage the users. We will have three parameters in our

User model: name, email, and password. Let's go ahead and create our User model called

User.js in the models directory:

const mongoose = require('mongoose');

const Schema = mongoose.Schema;

const UserSchema = new Schema({

name: String,

email: String,

password: String,

});

const User = mongoose.model('User', UserSchema);

module.exports = User;

As you can see, the following are the three attributes for the user: name, email, and

password.

Installing bcryptjs

Now, we cannot save these user's passwords in plain text, so we will need a mechanism to

encrypt them. Fortunately, we already have a package designed to encrypt passwords,
which is bcryptjs. Let's first add this package to our application:

$ npm install bcryptjs --save

When the package is installed, let's add the initialization block in the User.js model:

const mongoose = require('mongoose');

const bcryptjs = require('bcryptjs');

const Schema = mongoose.Schema;

const UserSchema = new Schema({

name: String,

email: String,

password: String,

});

const User = mongoose.model('User', UserSchema);

module.exports = User;