# braitsch/node-login

A template for quickly building login systems on top of Node.js & MongoDB

Repository: https://github.com/braitsch/node-login
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/node-login
Homepage: https://node-login.braitsch.io
Language: JavaScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2021-07-25T06:01:49+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5217, "days_push": 1865, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1589, forks 634 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:08.101843+00:00)

## What it is
A Node.js and MongoDB template application providing a complete user account management system with signup, login, session tracking, and email-based password reset. It serves as a starting point for building login systems on the Node.js stack.

## Use cases
- add user login to a node.js app
- build a signup and account management system
- implement password reset via email
- learn session handling with node and mongodb
- bootstrap a web app with authentication
- store user accounts in mongodb with hashed passwords

## When to choose
- you want a ready-made, self-hosted login system on Node.js and MongoDB
- you need a simple reference implementation of account creation, sessions, and password reset
- you are learning how cookie-based sessions and password hashing work in Node.js

## When to avoid
- you need production-grade security, modern auth standards like OAuth or passkeys, or maintained dependencies
- you use a database other than MongoDB
- you want a maintained library rather than an aging template with a non-standard license

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: auth, web-framework, templating, email
- domain: web-development, security, developer-tools
- platform: self-hosted
- tags: login-system, mongodb, user-account-management, session-tracking, password-reset, starter-template, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- braitsch/node-login (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:08.101843+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:54:50.303136+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/braitsch/node-login (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:08.101843+00:00, sha 4dc27c89f7c8)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.