Understanding Authentication in Node.js - Sessions and Cookies - Web Development Concepts Explained

Understanding Authentication using Cookies and Sessions is a very important topic to understand in web development. I will be using Node.js and Express and MongoDB to build a very basic example of login and register.
In this video I try my best to explain the basic workings of how this process of sessions and cookies work together to make it possible to authenticate users in you website.
I hope you enjoy the video and if you did don't forget to like and subscribe and then I will see ya'll in the next one....🤓
Express-Session Docs:
www.npmjs.com/...
Connect-MongoDB-Session Docs:
www.npmjs.com/...
If you want to know how To implement Authentication when building a RESTfull API go check out my video on this.
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[@the_full_stack_junkie]

GitHub Repo for the project code in the video 🤓:
github.com/LloydJanseVanRensburg/Authentication_Node_Sessions_Cookies
Hope you liked this video. In the next authentication video I will be handling authentication from a API using JWT check it out in the web development concepts explained playlist!
Have a great day peace out...

[@engespress]

Good tutorial. Thanks!

[@elyasarkin0991]

Awesome and clean tutorial thank you

[@mushfiqurniaz_]

I was about to comment if you don't put in source code you're gay but thanks

[@emilejuniorada6670]

48hours. I've been struggling to understand those sessions things for 48 hours, making my ways through bunch of tutorials, and you just saved me. more follower

[@the_full_stack_junkie]

So glad it helped!🤓🤘

[@Blazing_Hotmagma]

Think bros struggles with the Rs 💀

[@muhammadjunaid3684]

What an amazing tutorial!
I couldn't learn about sessions without this tutorial.
Really love that 😍😍😍

[@jesusenriqueperez5307]

I've watched many videos about express-session and you are the first person that explains what is that cookie's purpose. Thank you

[@the_full_stack_junkie]

Thanks so much very glad it helped champ

[@sameerswankar]

what happens when i open two tabs and login from different account on each of them, will the cookie gets overwritten ? How will that work

[@Abhisheky418]

This was so clean , precise and to the point just loved it. thankyou for making this.

[@the_full_stack_junkie]

So glad it was helpful thanks for the comment

[@florin1335]

Bro, I watched a few tutorials on this topic but yours was the best.

[@the_full_stack_junkie]

I am very glad to hear this! Thanks so much for this comment

[@unessss]

I highly recommend this video to beginners... He explained EVERY line and word and code as simple as they could be...
wish he covered the OAuth tho (like google login or other authenticating platforms )

[@mohammedjoubba318]

thank you , awesome explanation

[@yehudahimelfarb5935]

wow...excelent explication !!! 👏

[@pankajjoshi8292]

what is diff between EXPRESS and EXPRESS-SESSION?

[@the_full_stack_junkie]

Express is web framework for node
Express-session is a middleware package used for reading and crwating sessions

[@ajwadmajed3551]

A very Important question about this tutorial... how do i post the sign up (form) in Clientside Javascript with http post request? i don't see you using it in this tutorial ? do i need a fetch API on the client-side javascript?

[@blank2782]

Amazing, clearly explained everything. Thankyou so much for this video.

[@SanjuKumar-ye8xz]

Very simply explanation. Thank dude☺️☺️☺️

[@vladosononame6376]

Why 3 people disliked it, they have no soul

[@__peanut__butter28]

this video simplified the cookie session, thanks a lot live more!

[@GaBlack-wo9vx]

This video is really helpful, thank you so much

[@RMBK243]

amazing very helpful thanks

[@rayensaidani600]

"so tommy shelby is a web dev now"
think you tho it was very helpful

[@harrisonvijay8897]

Thanks a lot for this video. It helped me, a beginner, understand cookies and sessions. Keep on posting!

[@rules654]

great work made, helped in my project.

[@ravipayasi6875]

Amazing explanation, liked and subbed

[@mohamadabdeen6906]

great video ,thanks very much

[@Eddie4k]

Wow best video I have found tbh on this topic

[@VijayTamada]

Nice & to the point! Great!!

[@manishbhardwaj4587]

love it, thank you Teacher!

[@magdyismail946]

Thank you
This was very useful for me

[@facundoloto1514]

this video help me understand the seccions and the cookies of login and logout,after hours and days search ,thanks so much

[@iganic7574]

This is surely the easiest video about authontication 😍. Thanks bro your are amazing

[@sameerswankar]

what happens when i open two tabs and login from different account on each of them, will the cookie gets overwritten ? How will that work

[@walideker2253]

bruh tysm i hve been strugling over 2 weeks only ur video did it
tysm

[@charansrinivas3149]

Not working with reactjs. Cookies is not settinh up in browser

[@felakos1568]

Very useful lesson and accessible presentation. Congratulations,
you surpassed the whole Internet. Thank you sir.

[@mdjahidulislam9205]

everything is fine but in mobile browser cooke get destroyed automatically. if i close the browser and open it again.

[@the_full_stack_junkie]

Yes this is so. Unless you set the expires value on the cookie then ut will only be removed once it has expired

[@0xyz]

Great Video, Thanks for this

[@ManeelxAkosAdor]

outstanding tutorial man, thanks so much I learned a lot

[@the_full_stack_junkie]

Thanks for the comment, glad you found it helpful 💪

[@stuff3704]

thank you, great explanation

[@ajwadmajed3551]

quick question.. do we need a fetch() API method to send the post request correctly? or is it correct to just use this tutorial ?

[@the_full_stack_junkie]

Do you mean a custom hook that fetches data?

[@AmanRaj-ho5qh]

The explanation is very clear

[@hand-somepaws9285]

Perfectly explained. More information given. This is the best video I ever searched for.

[@vikram87in]

great video... thanks 😍

[@harshad1704]

one of the clear video on the express session very very thank you Junkie

[@ashfaquemamdu4582]

Thanks man it was helpful

[@drupalguy]

Good tutorial. Thank you

[@katakuri8350]

thank you so much

[@indianafootballer3257]

thank you... so understandable.. best taught ❤️❤️

[@codefork94]

Dude!!!! I finally get it!!!!

[@souravvashisht7153]

Thank you very Much.

[@samjacker]

thank you so much

[@carlsagan9808]

Great sessions tutorial!

[@quanduong3390]

Thank you so much for making this. You explained it well. Thank you

[@techyguyaditya]

Something's bugging me here. In the middleware isAuth, where does it check if isAuth true? Browser cookie or MongoDB session? If it's browser cookie then anyone can fake isAuth and access the dashboard.

[@哈里森-y9l]

Nice Share , thanks my bro , it's pretty worth for me !

[@the_full_stack_junkie]

Thanks for positive feedback back champ

[@duggie3026]

Thank you so much for the video. Your video helped me so much with the login and logout section.

[@danielEpifanov]

wow, amazing content

[@franciscosalazar8116]

Wow, this video is amazing!!!!!Thanks so much it wouldn't have been possible to understand this without your video!!! I could deploy my app finally thanks to you!!!

[@ayomichaels1204]

This is super helpful

[@NISHANTRAJ-rl9lf]

I should subscribe You from Two emails😍

[@akinwekomitemitope4748]

this is soooo simplified. its like some authentication and authorization courses🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@the_full_stack_junkie]

So glad you found it helpful 🤓

[@adeyemodavidsunday7140]

Thank you so much for this wonderful piece I have been looking for a simplified authentication tutorial for so long but could not get one. I was able to follow your steps to implement AUTH using PostgreSQL database. Thanks a million times.

[@claudiovitordantas2348]

man, this is the best video on how to do a simple authentication on nodejs! congrats!!

[@TommyMN]

Thank you so much, I was searching the web for a good understanding of these subjects and you explained them very well my friend!

[@balajeemishra]

Thank you sir. It was very useful. Today I understood what cookies actually do.

[@bharatjagoar6092]

respect ++++ man !!

[@liveecofriendly1116]

After login successfully, if i change the url to /login and hit enter, it is taking me back to Login page, it shouldn't do that, because the login is successful, it should remain in dashboard page only.

[@nagato6819]

omg!! finally, I found a good video about authentication, thank you for this great explanation

[@hos7012]

best explanation

[@BaranivskyVadim]

Yes I agree. Very good explanation. I watched many videos, only this made my work finished

[@randomdudewithabeard7593]

Hello,
When I try to go to my dashboard page, I get this error :
Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'isAuth')
What should I do ?

[@sukhmanpreetsinghsandhub2042]

Awesome video🙌

[@rajesht9694]

Wonderful demo

[@PradeepKumar-fh2vs]

I have watched many videos but did not get clear picture of how the session is working. your video has cleared my lots of doubts, Thanks for such a wonderful tutorial.

[@pankajjoshi8292]

aw sm tutorial

[@sandeepkumar-of4wy]

Love you man.

[@UTravis]

Thanks alot

[@dipeshmandanka]

Can I use session across multiple modules like
Student Login, register, Logout
Teacher Login, Logout, regsiter
Admin Login, Logout, register???

[@ayberkd9784]

Hi, how about expiration? Should we manually remove the session from the db? Or is there any way to do it automatically?

[@rasheed9947]

Real Legend

[@kevinwilliams6070]

Thank you so much. You explained this really well.

[@HoangAnh-Vu]

Thanks a lot

[@vickyyadav7155]

Very helpful

[@Getentertainedp]

Subscribed!

[@theunusual4566]

Thank you !

[@sidheart8905]

thank you very great and informative video... people are just tend to sue lot of addons or libraries , but from your video we can understand basic fundalmentals of authentication in nodejs using simple cookies and a database.

[@dilmurod9820]

Best Teacher i have ever seen in programming on youtube respect

[@the_full_stack_junkie]

Thanks so much really appreciate

[@theclub372]

Thanks for the video man. How do I go about authorization? Do I just store a property in the session?

[@TLK3693]

awesome

[@serenliceackeric9732]

Best explanation !! thank u so much

[@the_full_stack_junkie]

You are welcome! Glad it was helpful.

[@captainalpha4853]

Hello, I'm using express-session package. When i log in, i see that there is a cookie in the response.
However, when i try to make a new request to the server, I don't see the cookie in the request header.
PS: I'm using Nuxt3 for client side.

[@ivantrachuk3736]

Omg dude, thank you so much, it's so clear and easy to understand!

[@vipinr8473]

Thankyou for giving this wonderfull class thankyou so much

[@blackpeep984]

Holy shit bro this gotta be the best, easiest and most straightforward tutorial on sessions. Thank you very much!

[@Opacity5]

awesome

[@dileepdilraj5254]

Namaste,This is dileep dilraj.Actually I want to scrap a website which asking login to scrap details but the problem is to request the website "we have to now what is in the form" here I cant see details I have to fill in the form and it showing in the form ids: (number) ,Could you please help me to solve this problem.

[@giddyvibes-0423]

Am the type that really found it hard to understand but this video is solid Gold

[@xosound5938]

Nice tutorial man!!! You really explained everything so well. Thanks 😊

[@the_full_stack_junkie]

Thanks for comment champ hope to keep making content that helps

[@benzemamumba]

You've got an Afrikaans accent.

[@the_full_stack_junkie]

That is correct

[@skmahmoodsameer2933]

I have connected mongdb atlas, and connected successfully but there is no "session" database and "my_session" colleciton are being created automatically, as shown in video, why?

[@bossysmaxx3327]

dude video is amazing but one question:::
what is the purpose of saving the session in database?
please give me answer
below is bullshit, didn't wanted to write but I was forced.... sorry
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okay I did everything same as the video except that I didn't used connect-mongoose-session at all, it worked the same way, so what is the purpose of saving the session in database, whereas we all know that sessions are used till user close the browser and saving the session in db it's not useful....,
we can use cookies to save userInfo for long period of time...., okay all I need to know is what is the purpose of saving session in database

[@byTwest]

If I am using react and routing on the frontend, how do I check if the user is authenticated to route them to protected pages?

[@vitorsanto1479]

I have a question. I wanted to make a forum type site, I would like that after the user is authenticated show on a page as their data such as post, videos, message that he put on the site (through a form) how would I do this?

[@BrantK147]

omg I think it's just me but that "r" is soooo distracting!!!! XD just curl your tongue man! not that hard XD