Why? (Is this needed? Are we "Re-inventing the Wheel"...?)

[nelsonic]

tl;dr

Why is this Needed?

This is not the first system people can use as the "base" for their apps.

"out-of-the-box" / "off-the-shelf" User registration/management systems:

• https://github.com/braitsch/node-login [no tests]
• https://github.com/jedireza/aqua looks good but not focussed on simplicity

  Backends for "Modern JavaScript Apps" >> "Assume a can opener"

There is no shortage of frameworks that clame to "solve" the problem of helping people build web applications

• Firebase (Google Backend-as-a-Service) - https://firebase.google.com/ includes user reg/auth and admin.
• Meteor - https://github.com/meteor/meteor
• Hoodie - http://hood.ie/about/
• Horizon - https://github.com/rethinkdb/horizon
• Deployd - https://github.com/deployd/deployd
• Sails - https://github.com/balderdashy/sails
• deepstream - https://deepstream.io/

All of these frameworks have one thing in common: they totally ignore Progressive Enhancement 😞

read: https://gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk/2016/09/19/why-we-use-progressive-enhancement-to-build-gov-uk/