Session Handling with Firebase/React
Explore how to handle user authentication sessions within a React app integrated with Firebase. Learn to manage the authUser state locally in the App component, pass session data to dependent components, and use Firebase's listener for real-time session updates. Understand conditional rendering based on authentication status to enhance user navigation and experience.
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This lesson is very crucial for the authentication process. Since we have all the components required to fulfill an authentication round-trip in React, all that is missing now is an overseer to overlook and inspect the session state.
The information of the currently authenticated user needs to be stored and made accessible to other components. This is the point where developers most often start using a state management library like Redux or MobX. In this course, ...