Installing the Express Framework and npm Packages

We will install ten different npm packages in our backend project. The importance of these npm packages will significantly help the workflow in our backend. We can now take a look at each of these packages down below:

Bcryptjs

bcryptjs is an npm package with a password hashing function that helps prevent sensitive data, e.g., passwords, from being compromised. It uses salt to protect sensitive data stored in plaintext. To install bcryptjs, we have to run the following command:

npm i bcryptjs

Cors

Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) is a feature in browsers that makes it possible for restricted web pages to get requests from a domain different from the domain resource it was sourced. When trying to access domains from two different origins, the ...