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Authentication: Users table creation and seeding

Authentication: Users table creation and seeding

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Authentication: Users table creation and seeding

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Welcome to our session on authentication. In this session, we're going to lay the groundwork for a secure login system. Our main goal is to create a robust users table in our database, specifically designed to handle authentication-related data. We'll then populate, or seed, this table with some sample user data, which is essential for testing our features as we build them. Let's get started. Let's begin inside our dbsetup.js file. Its purpose is to initialize our SQLite database, create and seed our tables. Now I am adding a new section at the top of our script to handle dropping existing tables. During development, it's incredibly useful to have a clean slate each time you start the application to ensure your schema changes and seed data are applied correctly. I'm adding code that drops the users table if it exists. The if exists clause is important because it prevents an error if the table doesn't exist on the first run. This statement tells the database to completely remove the…

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