Building a Chrome extension | Part 1: Express server & JWT setup
#JavaScript #Express #NodeJS
I decided at the last minute to build a Chrome extension to help me meet my NaNoWriMo goals, and thought I might as well record the process. This first video goes through what I've scaffolded out so far, and sets up some very basic user authentication.
The extension is provisionally named 1667 -- it takes 1667 words a day, more or less, to get to the full 50,000 word goal set for NaNoWriMo. It'll take over the new tab page and behave essentially like a super simple text document. Once you get to 1667 words, it'll allow you to save your work to the database -- but if you don't get that far, it'll delete everything you've written. An incentive to get all the way there.
Also, it'll redirect you away from social media sites until you've written your 1667 words for the day. Obviously it can't help you stay off your phone, but it should be a cool tool for work.
Here's the tutorial I was following for the token auth: https://www.digitalocean.com/communit...
If you want more robust token auth, you might try passport-jwt: http://www.passportjs.org/packages/pa...
Here is where we ended up at the end of the video: https://github.com/jlr7245/1667/tree/...
If you don't use postman, you should: https://www.postman.com/
Also, it's allergy season, and you can probably tell :(