[ricccardo]

nice tutorial! it probably would have saved me lots of time, but now that I went through too many of them, this is more like a good recap :-)

what I am missing though (not a critic to your tutorial, just expressing my frustration as I try to learn beyond the basics) is concrete examples of how to implement specific features: authentication w/ express, nontrivial restful interaction, and interaction with Socket.IO. Most examples out there are so basic that they don't seem to keep any server state. Does anybody have some useful links?

BTW, coming from python/django, express does not seem to have an easy auth module to cover basic needs of db authentication. passport is overly complicated, and mongoose does not try to do auth. What do you hip node.js programmers use? Perhaps my problem is that I am trying to get familiar with node, express, nosql and client-side mvc frameworks at the same time and my head is just exploding. Or perhaps I am missing a framework with a full, well-documented stack! The more I try, the more I get tired of getting all these modules to work with each other :-)

[danielstudds]

Finding the same thing with node.js, I got started OK with passport thanks to the examples for passport-local: https://github.com/jaredhanson/passport-local/tree/master/ex..., especially express3-mongoose-multiple-files.

Beyond that though, I've had to hack a fair bit to get "remember me" working (following the practices suggested http://stackoverflow.com/questions/549/the-definitive-guide-... and http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2004/01/19/persistent_login_coo...) so not exactly straight-forward. (Aside: the remember me example for passport local might not be production ready, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16136712/is-an-authtoken-...).

Also would love to hear what others are using!