Chapter 6. Sessions and Cookies

Our application is beginning to get a little more real now; in the previous chapter, we added some APIs and client-side interfaces to them.

In our application's current state, we've added /api/comments, /api/comments/[id], /api/pages, and /api/pages/[id], thus making it possible for us to get and update our data in JSON format and making the application better suited for Ajax and client-side access.

Though we can now add comments and edit them directly through our API, there is absolutely no restriction on who can perform these actions. In this chapter, we'll look at the ways to limit access to certain assets, establishing identities, and securely authenticating when we have them.

By the end, we should be able to enable ...

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