MERN Chat App

Checkpoints

1. EXPRESS.JS

• Define and create controllers
• Express validator

2. MONGOOSE

• User model
• Message model
• Chatroom model
• DB Connection

3. MORGAN

• Log dev to console

4. BCRYPT

• Hash password
• Check password

5. JSON WEB TOKEN

• Create token and validate function
• Create token and cookie for signup
• Create token for login

6. DotENV

7. GRAVATAR

• User profile images