I tried to implement a simple login system with Mongodb and Node.js, but I found it to be too much of a hassle (everyone is building things on a hundred of frameworks and not explaining half of the code). I probably could do it, but it would require too much work and so on, as I only want to make a simple multiplayer game.
My alternative to databases are plaintext files. I do plan to hash the passwords, of course. The first problem that came to my mind was that the file could potentially get too big, and that the server would slow down completely trying to read it (in a hypothetical situations, I doubt my game will have that many users). The solution would be to create a users/ folder on the server, and split the big file into many smaller ones. Their names would correspond with the usernames, and there hashed passwords and emails would be held. This solves the speed issue, and I can’t see how I still need databases!
Am I missing something? Are there other advantages to using databases? Also, I would be very pleased if someone answered with a login Mongodb example, that would solve all my problems. Just make it as simple as possible.
There are a ton of reasons to use a real database instead of some hacked, half-baked file implementation. Some big ones:
If you want “lightweight,” I’d recommend that you start with SQLite.
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