httpsauth

Ever since I made my first website (whizfile

), I began to notice everything in the websites I visited and became fascinated with trying to figure out how they did them. Inevitably, some things interested me more than others—one such thing was authentication.

For a bit, I was obsessed with authentication, specifically trying to implement it from scratch. I made many attempts to tackle this challenge and I kept failing. I always stumbled into some issue that I wouldn't know how to solve, or just keep making small mistakes that would snowball into a huge mistake that made me want to start over. Even though at this point I only knew faliure, it didn't matter to me because each attempt taught me something new, and with each attempt I got a little closer to getting it right—I knew if I kept going, it was inevitable that I would get it right.

Eventually, this obsession subsided and I was able to divert my attention to working on other projects I came into another period of idleness. I didn't really know what to work on, so I thought I should have a crack at learning Nuxt. Something that was a pretty big more for me since up until that point I had only used NextJS. I decided that the best “practice project” would be to try to do authentication from scratch again.

It went well. Over a two week period I created everything I though authentication should have. A REST HTTP API, email notifications, password resets, a nice UI to wrap it all together, and a bunch of other stuff I have forgotten by now... Point is, I made it in my image of perfection (which is not to suggest that it is or was perfect, just that to me it seemed perfect).