A word of advice on passport. Don&#x27;t just throw it in there and not learn anything about it. It&#x27;s a really crafty middleware&#x2F;library that is intended to be customized&#x2F;extended. If you write your own strategies (after looking up the mainstream ones for reference) it&#x27;ll give you a lot more power in terms of you authentication&#x2F;authorization schemes.<p>I think that can be said about most products of scaffolds. If you intend to use this you should learn at least a little about node&#x2F;express&#x2F;jade&#x2F;mongo&#x2F;bootstrap as well. I feel a lot of people don&#x27;t I know I didn&#x27;t when I started web dev (I&#x27;m looking at you RoR).