3 Password REGEX For your Next JavaScript Project

Regular expressions are cryptic and hard to understand and build one from scratch.
But don’t panic with those cryptic symbols, the dev community can help.
Here i am writing 3 password regular expressions to use it at your next JavaScript front end app or your next NodeJS back end application.

// PASSWORD REGEX FOR YOUR NEXT JAVASCRIPT APP

// regex for a basic password must be
// more than 8 chars 
const PASSWORD_REGEX_1=  ^[A-Za-z0-9]\w{8,}$/;

// more secure regex password must be
// more than 8 chars 
// at least one number
const PASSWORD_REGEX_2 = /^(?=.*\d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z]).{8,}$/;

// more secure regex password must be :
// more than 8 chars  
// at least one number
// at least one special character
const PASSWORD_REGEX_3=  /^(?=.*\d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[!@#$%^&*]).{8,}$/;

You can combine all 3 regular expressions to show proper warning messages.

Great web sites to check your regular expressions :

1. regex101
2. regexr
3. regextester