Exercise 3: The Third Confirmation in the Series — Possible Solution ==================================================================== CONFIRMING bcryptjs VERIFIES THE $2y$ HASH ------------------------------ Given the legacy admin's real stored hash (a $2y$-tagged bcrypt hash produced by PHP's password_hash()), calling bcrypt.compare(plainPassword, legacyHash) with the correct plaintext password returns true, with no configuration change of any kind needed on the bcryptjs side. THE TWO EARLIER CHAPTERS WHERE THE SAME PACKAGE ALREADY DID THIS ------------------------------ Per this chapter, the Next.js rebuild's own Chapter 9 was the first to use bcryptjs to verify this exact legacy hash, inside a NextAuth.js Credentials provider. The Astro rebuild's own Chapter 9 confirmed the identical package doing the identical job a second time, through its own @auth/astro integration - the same underlying Auth.js library as Next.js. This chapter is the third confirmation, using bcryptjs directly with no framework wrapper around it at all. WHY THIS WORKS AS AN ANSWER ------------------------------ It correctly confirms bcryptjs verifies the $2y$-tagged hash with no configuration, and correctly names the Next.js and Astro rebuild courses as the two earlier places in the series where the identical npm package already performed the same verification.