Meteor Password Hashing

getHashedPassword.js

// Based on https://forums.meteor.com/t/accounts-password-in-nodejs/45154 
const prompts = require('prompts');
const hashPassword = require('./meteorpass')

let pass;

prompts([{
  type: 'password',
  name: 'password',
  message: 'Enter plaintext password',
},
{
  type: 'password',
  name: 'confirmPass',
  message: (prev, values) => { pass = prev; return 'Confirm password' },
  validate: confirm => {
    return (confirm === pass) ? true : 'Passwords don\'t match' ;
  }
}]).then((response) => {
  console.log(hashPassword(response.password));
})

meteorpass.js

// Based on https://forums.meteor.com/t/accounts-password-in-nodejs/45154 
const bcrypt = require('bcrypt')

const hashPassword = (password) => {
  const saltRounds        = 10

  const salt = bcrypt.genSaltSync(saltRounds, 'a')
  const hash = bcrypt.hashSync(password, salt)

  return hash
}


module.exports = hashPassword;

Usage:

npm install bcrypt prompts
node getHashedPassword.js

Example:

% node getHashedPassword.js
✔ Enter plaintext password … *********
✔ Confirm password … *********
$2a$10$ovBWava0MVkz8gmc9RSqteMuZqoa/0pjZW3WfngTUU.TDySKHccPu