Why bcrypt Is Not Enough in 2026 And What We Built Instead

The Story Behind This Package Every time I started a new Node.js backend project, I found myself doing the same thing. npm install bcrypt npm install joi # copy-paste AppError class from some tutorial Three packages. Three different docs. Three different ways of doing the same things. And I did this in every single project — and so did every developer I knew. Me and my friend Ubed decided to fix this. We built nodearmor —a single npm package that replaces all of that with one install. npm install nodearmor This is the story of why we built it, what problem each module solves, and what we learned publishing our first open source npm package. The Problem With bcrypt in 2026 Let me start with the biggest one — password hashing. bcrypt has been the default answer to "how do I hash passwords in Node.js" for over 15 years. Search that question right now. bcrypt is in the first three results. Every tutorial uses it. Every project copy-pastes it. Here is the problem nobody talks about. bcrypt