A word of advice on passport. Don't just throw it in there and not learn anything about it. It's a really crafty middleware/library that is intended to be custo

A word of advice on passport. Don't just throw it in there and not learn anything about it. It's a really crafty middleware/library that is intended to be customized/extended. If you write your own strategies (after looking up the mainstream ones for reference) it'll give you a lot more power in terms of you authentication/authorization schemes. I think that can be said about most products of scaffolds. If you intend to use this you should learn at least a little about node/express/jade/mongo/bootstrap as well. I feel a lot of people don't I know I didn't when I started web dev (I'm looking at you RoR).