Warning ahead for learners: FCC Advanced Node and Express is horribly broken

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you may refer to the below youtube for the experienced programmer to attempt the session

and he would also encounter so many unintended mistakes and nothing could work without reading the solutions, spoilers, also untold requests which you would have to do to clear the test.

if you are encountering problem, stop doing it. read the comment section. and maybe just watch the video and then consider it as done

and glitch too, thats horribly broken! unresponsive!

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The test pass, but I can't login like it says I should
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Hi lychenus,
could you describe the specific problems you ran into?

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oh. you ask.

i have just got one more source for that. and if you are not reading then you are not reading. and you are really not reading.

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We are aware of the issues with the Advanced Node and Express.

A fix has been made, but QAing will take some time: https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp/pull/39080’

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I wish I had seen this post a little sooner. I was wondering if it was just me.
Well, never mind. I’ll watch the video and not worry.

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If you look at the link that @Sky020 shared, you can see that the fix for this issue went in back in September of 2020.

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Well, I’m not happy with it. I’m passing all the tests but somehow it’s not working and I’m not registering users, logging them in or out. Should it be working? Then why am I passing the tests? It’s a lot of piled up code, it’s not very motivating to work with this part of the curriculum. I think I’ll learn more working on a project.

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If you’re having difficulties with one of the exercises, then you can create a topic here that describes the problem you’re having and includes your code.

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It’s not one of the exercises. It’s all of them. I’ve done 12 challenges now of the advanced express module and I pass tests, understand the theory more or less but I’m not registering users, loggin in or out. I’ve got the previous certificates, so I’ve worked with cloud atlas and I feel more or less comfortable with express. This advanced stuff is all brandnew and I’m not connecting with it. Where is the problem ? No idea. What question should be asking? I don’t know. I see more or less how the pieces fit together, I’ve read up on oAuth but I’m basically copying code into the code.
I suspect and hope that once I start working on a project and get into the nitty gritty of it all, I will be able to ask questions.
Thank you for your quick reaction
Karin

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Feel free to create a topic to talk something through or get help any time you feel like it would benefit you. It may take a bit longer to get a response with some of the more advanced stuff, but there are people who can talk it out with you.

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Thank you very much!
Karin

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Hi,

Today I accidentally figured out what was going wrong. I had created a SESSION_SECRET and then later replaced it by another one. So I thought, because today I noticed I had stored two of them. Now, I’m talking to the db.
Nevertheless, now that I’m getting real EMs, I have also noticed that there were faults in my routes.js and auth.js. I hadn’t required all of the necessary dependencies but I was still passing the tests. That was so frustrating, I wasn’t getting any real feedback anymore. Now I’m back on track. Thanks again for being there, it makes a real difference. Every time I feel like giving up, reactions like yours keep me going.

Greets,
Karin

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Congratulations on figuring it out! You’re doing great.