Web Development with Julia and Genie

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Adding Authentication to Our App

We’ve made great progress so far, developing our to-do app and hosting it on the web. However, making our application available on the internet introduces a new problem: how do we keep our data safe? Anybody who knows the URL of our app can access it and can see all our to-dos. We need to add some kind of authentication to our app so that only authorized users can access it. In addition, wouldn’t it be nice if we could share our to-do app with our friends and family so they could also create their lists and keep track of their to-dos?

To achieve these outcomes, we need to add an authentication layer to our app. Authentication will ensure that only authorized users can see specific to-do items. In other words, ...