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credential-plus-bcrypt
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DEPRECATED!!! USE upash INSTEAD
$ npm install --save credential-plus-bcrypt
const credential = require('credential-plus');
credential.install(require('credential-plus-bcrypt'));
// Hash and verify with bcrypt and default configs
credential.hash('We are all unicorns', {func: 'bcrypt'})
.then(hash) => {
console.log(hash);
//=> {"hash":"$2a$10$fxxhS75tSP7sP/8UNNJs8uspHSfusSCafU.EhTsn15ENdm/9n3IQe","func":"bcrypt"}
credential.verify(hash, 'We are all unicorns')
.then(match) => {
console.log(match);
//=> true
});
});
See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.
FAQs
BCrypt password hashing function for credential-plus
The npm package credential-plus-bcrypt receives a total of 6 weekly downloads. As such, credential-plus-bcrypt popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that credential-plus-bcrypt demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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