# Auth Part 1
Add form-based cookie authentication to our sticker-mania app.
The Standards: https://gist.github.com/w3cj/bd3a541e1f09ddbb039079be575cf42e
Auth checklist: https://gist.github.com/w3cj/4eb54dbf9f1c5ca4292e6299735144c5
The code: https://github.com/w3cj/users-stickers-CRUD
## Authentication
* 0:33 Setup
* 2:41 Overview of Sign Up Process
* 5:35 Add auth router
* 8:38 Create user with POST /auth/signup
* 10:13 validate required fields
* 18:33 Check if email is unique
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