API Authentication with Node Part #8 - Bcrypt Explained

How to use Bcrypt to hash and salt passwords in a Node.js application to avoid storing them in plain text.

In this video, we'll learn all about Bcrypt! We'll see how we can use it to hash our passwords so that we don't store them in plain text format in our database. Next, we'll also learn how salting works and why it's needed later on when we want to compare the password user just typed with the hashed version that we have stored in our database. Link to repository: github.com/eXtremeXR/APIAuthenticationWithNode/ Specific branch: github.com/eXtremeXR/APIAuthenticationWithNode/tree/Part_%23… You can find different branches for different videos and reference the code that way. Every video (that's about programming) will have a corresponding branch that's called the same as the video title. Huge shout-out to Michael Alaev for helping out with GitHub repository!