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Activity tracking and sessions
What you will learn
In this chapter, we will discover how to personalize the user experience of our sites. We’ll start by discovering how a website can use cookies to keep track of individual visitors on a web application and connect users to the content they have created. We’ll create globally unique identifiers. We’ll make some Express middleware to manage user tracking and take a look at modeling techniques we can use to improve our workflow design practices. We will create a user management database and discover how to store passwords securely.
Then, we will create some security middleware for the routes ...
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