Passport
Simple, unobtrusive authentication for Node.js
Passport is a flexible authentication middleware for Node.js that provides a modular and extensible system for handling user login and identity in web applications. It doesn’t impose specific user model structures or storage strategies but instead offers a unified API driven by “strategies”—small plugins that encapsulate authentication logic for protocols such as local username/password, OAuth, OpenID, SAML, and many others. This design allows developers to plug in only the strategies they...