Chapter 5. React Blog App Part 2 – Users
This chapter covers user session management as well as creating, viewing, and listing users (bloggers).
Our primary focus for the app is posts, but a post must be associated with a user identity. User account management is an often-underestimated and complex part of applications. One of the more difficult aspects of account management is security. Since we are making a mock application, we won't have much security. We are going to establish the user identity with a simple comparison during log in. If we moved beyond this prototype into a real, deployable, application, we'd replace most of this session management code with software that's suited specifically for user identity management.
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