Beside creating an account with username and password, this starter kit supports social authentication such as Facebook, Google, Twitter etc ...
passportjs has more than 300 different strategies to choose from.
Here is the configuration for the Facebook authentication:
"authentication":{
"facebook":{
"clientID":"",
"clientSecret":"",
"callbackURL": "http://localhost:3000/v1/auth/facebook/callback"
}
}