SALT and HASH password in nodejs w/ crypto

Question

I am trying to figure out how to salt and hash a password in nodejs using the crypto module. I am able to create the hashed password doing this:

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Answer 1

Faced with the same question I brought everything together into one module: https://www.npmjs.org/package/password-hash-and-salt

It uses pbkdf2 and stores hash, salt, algorithm, and iterations in a single field. Hope it helps.