Link: https://morning-reaches-44384.herokuapp.com/

The goal of this application was to develop a simple CRUD note taking app. This webapp demonstrates a simple implementation of CRUD operations with node using express, passport.js, and mongodb. Some challenges I faced in getting this app working included difficulties learning express and ejs files, working with passport/OAuth, and sending requests from JS (client side) while still using a csrf token. I chose to use passport with github oauth authentication simply because it seemed easy enough to get working (which it wasn't exactly!) and I wanted to gain experience working with OAuth / SSO. I used bootstrap as my CSS framework as I like the simplicity and have used it before. Express middleware packages are as follows:

• logger (morgan) to log messages and debug the application
• cookie parser, which parses and populates the req.cookies object for easy access
• session to maintain state between requests
• passport for oauth authentication
• csrf which is a middleware that prevents CSRF attacks by adding a csrf token and validator to requests
• error handler middleware which catches errors and displays them
• router level middleware to handle incoming requests based on their page

• Achievement 1: I used OAuth authentication via the GitHub strategy using passport and mongodb to save users
• Achievement 2: Used heroku for remote deployment
• Achievement 3: Acheieved 100% on all 4 lighthouse tests

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