Authentication with GraphQL

The basics of authentication should now be clear to you. Now, our task is to implement a secure way for users to authenticate. If we have a look at our current database, we will see that we are missing the required fields. To do so, follow these steps:

1. Let's prepare and add a password field and an email field. As we learned in Chapter 3, Connecting to the Database, we must create a migration to edit our user table. You can look up the commands in that chapter if you have forgotten them:

   sequelize migration:create --migrations-path src/server/migrations --name add-email-password-to-post

   The preceding command generates the new file for us.

2. Replace the content of it and try writing the migration on your own, or you can check for the right commands in the following code snippet:

   'use strict';
   module.exports = {
     up: (queryInterface, Sequelize) => {
       return Promise.all([
        ...