This app illustrates how to use Passport with Express to sign users in with email. Use this example as a starting point for your own web applications.
To run this app, clone the repository and install dependencies:
$ git clone https://github.com/passport/todos-express-email.git
$ cd todos-express-email
$ npm installThis app must be configured with a SendGrid API key.
Once credentials have been obtained, create a .env file and add the following
environment variables:
SENDGRID_API_KEY=__INSERT_API_KEY_HERE__
Start the server.
$ npm startNavigate to http://localhost:3000.
Follow along with the step-by-step Email Magic Link Tutorial to learn how this app was built.
This app illustrates how to build a todo app with sign in functionality using
Express, Passport, and the passport-magic-link
strategy.
This app is a traditional web application, in which application logic and data persistence resides on the server. HTML pages and forms are rendered by the server and client-side JavaScript is not utilized (or kept to a minimum).
This app is built using the Express web framework. Data is persisted to a SQLite database. HTML pages are rendered using EJS templates, and are styled using vanilla CSS.
When a user first arrives at this app, they are prompted to sign in. To sign in, the user clicks a magic link that is sent to their email address via SendGrid's API. Once authenticated, a login session is established and maintained between the server and the user's browser with a cookie.
After signing in, the user can view, create, and edit todo items. Interaction occurs by clicking links and submitting forms, which trigger HTTP requests. The browser automatically includes the cookie set during login with each of these requests.
When the server receives a request, it authenticates the cookie and restores the login session, thus authenticating the user. It then accesses or stores records in the database associated with the authenticated user.
Created by Jared Hanson