Session Handling with Higher-Order Components
Explore how to handle user authentication sessions efficiently in React with Firebase by leveraging higher-order components and React Context. This lesson helps you move session logic away from main components, enabling cleaner code and easier authenticated user access across your app.
We'll cover the following...
We implemented a basic version of session handling in the previous lesson. However, the authenticated user still needs to be passed down from the App component to other components interested in using it.
This can become tedious over time because the authenticated user has to be passed through all components until it reaches all the leaf components.
Previously, we used the React Context API to pass down the Firebase instance to other components. Now, we will do the same for the authenticated user.
React Context
In a new src/components/Session/context.js file, place the following new React ...