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Michael Wilkens
7,976 Pointsnpm install error *fixed*
Perhaps some of you ran into an error when installing bcrypt like I did in my macOS terminal.
Initially, this threw an error: npm install --save bcrypt
So instead, I typed: npm install --save bcrypt-nodejs && npm uninstall --save bcrypt
I am assuming this loads a newer version of bcrypt. I then required bcrypt in the user.js file like this: var bcrypt = require('bcrypt-nodejs');
And the bcrypt hashing code looks like this: UserSchema.pre('save', function(next) { var user = this; bcrypt.hash(user.password, null, null, function(err, hash) { if (err) { return next(err); } user.password = hash next(); }); });
The only difference is in the hash function, instead of typing 10, you type null twice. Maybe I am the only one who had this problem, but I thought I would share anyway.
I'm still curious why I had an error in the first place. Maybe the video is just older, and bcrypt-nodejs is the new standard?