Not sure why I never updated my blog with that but last summer I coded a browser based SnapChat clone. Oh! so much fun. It’s been coded by using JavaScript and a face tracking library called tracking.js NOTE: for whatever reason the code doesn’t work for you is mostly like (95%) because of a cross browser compatibility issue. I’ve tested this on IE, Chrome and
A short snippet to assist in linking of social media accounts in a userschema when using mongoDB & mongoose.js async function generateOrFindUser(accessToken, refreshToken, profile, done) { const email = profile.emails[0].value; const name = profile.displayName || profile.username; const facebookId = profile.id; if (email) { let updatedUser = await User.findOneAndUpdate({facebookId},{email,name,facebookId}, {‘upsert’: true, ‘new’: true}, done); } else { var emailError = new Error(“Your email privacy settings prevent
This is the next project in sequence to: Simply Auth: Authentication API for devs Simply Auth: Social platform authentication API for devs Sailor Moon Pose Recognition Signup/Login (on going….) The most basic functionality of the app will be: Register with a sequence of 3 poses Confirm your poses Login with your pose password I decided to go with pose instead of gesture since I
This is part of the ‘Sweet & Sour mongoose.js methods’ series. In this function we will write a method that acts upon the UserSchema to check whether an email OR username already exists in the database. As an example use-case, this method can then be used in the any of your routes files by exporting the “User” to check whether an email address already exists
I’ve been using Mongoose (ODM library for MongoDB) quite a bit for the authentication project. NoSQL databases like MongoDB do seem more flexible for web apps which depend quite a bit on user interaction. Example a user might decide to login with a social media account or register with their email, a password and secret question-answer. I find it way easier to write a mongoose
