I am a fan of Auth0. More for business reasons. They have taken Authentication seriously and made it into a trendy business. Kudos to the team.

It is easy to setup a React web app with Auth0 authentication on the front end. They have some pretty standard boilerplate code which works well for most part. Where they make it a bit more complicated for intermediate developers like me is the protecting an API with the authentication.…

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I took a formal Mongo course by Stephen Grider on Udemy. I am very happy with the way Stephen teaches. It is slow. Very relevant and practical. I feel accomplished and satisfied after the course. I prepared a few interview questions on Mongo and Mongoose which are quite useful.

  1. How do you create a model with Mongoose?
  2. What is the difference between an embedded document and an associated document?
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