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Login and Signup Pages

Login and Signup Pages

Learn to create login and signup pages for authentication in a Beego project

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In this lesson, we will start with authenticating the user in the Notes app. Till now, there is no concept of a user in the app. Anyone who knows the URL can access the app and all notes on it.

We will begin by creating sign-up and login pages in the app. These pages will serve as a portal to create a new user and a way to log in for the existing users.

Auth controller

For user sign-up, login, and logout, let’s create a new controller called SessionsController in the file controllers/sessions.go:

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package controllers
import (
       beego "github.com/beego/beego/v2/server/web"
)
type SessionsController struct {
       beego.Controller
}

Let’s break down this code:

  • Lines 7–9: This code defines a struct named SessionsController. The struct embeds beego.Controller, which means that the SessionsController inherits methods and properties from the beego.Controller type. This enables SessionsController to utilize Beego’s functionality for handling ...