Summary
Hopefully by this point you have a grasp of how to utilize basic cookies and sessions in Go, either through native Go or through the use of a framework, such as Gorilla. We've tried to demonstrate the inner workings of the latter so you're able to build without additional libraries obfuscating the functionality.
We've implemented sessions into our application to enable persistent state between requests. This is the very basis of authentication for the Web. By enabling users and sessions table in our database, we're able to log users in, register a session, and associate that session with the proper user on subsequent requests.
By utilizing flash messages, we made use of a very specific feature that allows transfer of information between ...
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