Chapter 4
Managing App Users
IN THIS CHAPTER
Setting up your app’s user class
Creating new user accounts
Signing users in and out of the web app
Handling forgotten passwords
Managing user accounts flexibly and securely
The craft of programming begins with empathy, not formatting or languages or tools or algorithms or data structures.
— KENT BECK
If your web app enables users to create data items, then those users will come with the more than reasonable expectation that your web app will preserve that data. The simplest web apps honor that expectation by saving user data locally in the web browser, a topic that I talk about in Book 8, Chapter 1. However, your users might also come with the further expectation that their data should be available to them no matter which device or web browser they happen to be using. This level of expectation is certainly still reasonable, but it’s considerably more complex because now you’re in the realm of managing user accounts on the server. This ...
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