Own admin panel - what tools needed?

[Maciej M.]

Hello!

I'm trying to learn Node.js along with Express by making from scratch a simple blog with basic cms. For that, I'll be needing an admin panel where I can add new posts, see basics information on every of them (such as publication date) and so on. When I google 'Node user authentication' (and other similiar phrases) I get mostly links to ready-to-use packages, such as Passport. I do not think I need a whole system for that, as there is gonna be only one user. On the other hand - I want to make it safe. The last thing I want is learning the Node bad way, for example - by making and admin panel which can be reached by anyone. So here is my question - what tools do I need?

Is Node and Express enough for that? If yes - how can it be achived?

Or do I need something like Passport?

Thank you for you help,

Maciej

[Nathanaël Lamellière]

Hi Maciej, 

A late reply on this. Have you had a look at the API-based CMS options? I work at prismic.io (one of the those) and I see lots of developers using it just just for that: having a simple admin panel just for the content management. Here is a blog sample working with Node.js and Express, it will give you an idea of how things works for your specific use case https://prismic.io/docs/examples/blog

Cheers