Armed with the knowledge of hashing and salting, we'll now implement a password-based authentication layer on top of our existing API using the bcrypt algorithm. First, we'll need to update our Create User endpoint to accept a bcrypt digest instead of a password. Since we are following TDD, we will update the E2E tests first, before updating the implementation.
Implementing password-base authentication
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