Updating the Client: The Login Screen
Explore how to update the client-side login screen in a React app to support password input, account registration, and secure token management. Understand handling various login failures, implementing flash messages, and integrating these changes within the app's main structure for smooth authentication flow.
Necessary changes
The updates to the client are fairly extensive since every interaction with the API must be correctly modified, and we need to think through how to handle a range of failure cases. There is good news, though, which is that all of the interactions with the server occur at the top level within the App.js file. Here’s a list of the changes we’ll need to make:
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Update the login screen by adding a password field and a “register account” check-box.
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Update the start ...