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7. Authentication

Christopher Pitt1  and Joe Mancuso2
(1)
Cape Town, South Africa
(2)
Holbrook, NY, USA
 

In the last few chapters, we’ve learned a lot about creating forms and using them to populate a database. One thing that’s quite common for web applications is trying this kind of data to a user account.

You probably got a ton of different “user accounts” for the services you use. Maybe you’re on Twitter or Facebook. These connect the data you post, and the things you like to see, to a personalized “identity.”

Masonite offers a lot of tooling in this area, so that we don’t have to do the heavy lifting every time we build ...

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