A note for Windows users

[rhewitt22]

The standard bcrypt module doesn't play nicely with Windows. For people that want to kick the tires on this application some suggested modifications:

Replace bcrypt with bcrypt-nodejs

In the User.js model update the beforeCreate function to include null as the third parameter:

beforeCreate: function(values, next) {
    bcrypt.genSalt(10, function(err, salt) {
      if (err) return next(err);

      bcrypt.hash(values.password, salt, null, function(err, hash) {
        if (err) return next(err);

        values.encryptedPassword = hash;
        next();
      });
    });
  },

[Foxandxss]

If that fixes it for everybody, you could write a PR to fix that.

[rhewitt22]

I can create a PR. The register/login/logout seemed to work well, but the messaging functionality did not.

Don't currently have a unix machine to ensure that it's a fix for everyone.