citrusella posted in RaB: "While hatching pets for the testing I just did, I realized that messageAlreadyPet ("You already have that pet. Try hatching a different combination!") doesn't pop up when you try to hatch a pet you already have. Is that deliberate or a bug?"

I have that issue too, and I'm guessing "bug", because it means you're just getting silent failures when you try to hatch a pet

It would be better to use bcrypt, beause its more secure as it's slower (uses more computing cycles).
Your code could also be better:

You wouldn't need salt field in User model, because it's saved into the same field as password does.

For authentication, something like:

var mongoose = require('mongoose'),
  bcrypt = require('bcryptjs');

var userSchema = mongoose.Schema({
  email: String,

please help me out with deployment of the code in Azure Web App.