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How to Secure Session Management in Node

In a web application, data is transferred from a browser to a server over HTTP. In modern applications, we use the HTTPS protocol, which is HTTP over TLS/SSL (secure connection), to transfer data securely. Looking at common use cases, we often encounter situations where we need to retain user state and information. However, HTTP is a stateless protocol. Sessions are used to store user information between HTTP requests. We can use sessions to store users' settings like when not authenticated. Post authentication sessions are used to identify authenticated users. Sessions fulfill an important role between user authentication and authorization. Exploring Sessions Traditionally, sessions are identifiers sent from the server and stored on the client-side. On the next request, the client sends the session token to the server. Using the identifier, the server can associate a request with a user. Session identifiers can be stored in cookies, localStorage, and sessionStorage. Session identi

Angular 9 - User Registration and Login Example & Tutorial

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In this tutorial we'll go through an example of how to build a simple user registration, login and user management (CRUD) application with Angular 9. The project is available on GitHub at  https://github.com/cornflourblue/angular-9-registration-login-example . The Angular CLI was used to generate the base project structure with the  ng new <project name>  command, the CLI is also used to build and serve the application. For more info about the Angular CLI see  https://angular.io/cli . Styling of the example app is all done with Bootstrap 4.4 CSS, for more info about Bootstrap see  https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.4/getting-started/introduction/ . Here it is in action:   (See on StackBlitz at  https://stackblitz.com/edit/angular-9-registration-login-example ) Running the Angular 9 Login Tutorial Example Locally Install NodeJS and NPM from  https://nodejs.org . Download or clone the Angular project source code from  https://github.com/cornflourblue/angular-9-registra

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