Auth Packages Introduction
Explore how to implement user authentication in Beego by using session management, defining filters for request handling, and securing passwords with bcrypt hashing techniques. This lesson helps you understand maintaining user sessions, protecting login data, and setting up middleware to support authentication workflows in your web apps.
To implement user authentication in a Beego application, we need a combination of Beego’s built-in components and other packages that provide additional functionality. Here are some of the essential packages and components:
Session management: Beego includes a session management package. This package allows us to store and manage user session data securely. This is essential for maintaining a user authentication state across requests.
Filters/middleware: Beego allows developers to define custom filter functions/middleware. These filters can alter the request or response and perform operations common to multiple handlers. Filters are generally used to manage sessions, handle authentication, and more. In other words, they are a generic way to execute code before and after the handler function.
Password hashing: To securely hash and verify user passwords, we need the bcrypt package or a similar package for password hashing.
Session management
Let’s explore how to implement session management in the Beego web framework. This allows us to maintain user states, store temporary data, and ...