Session Handling with Firebase/React
This section will deal with how our React application manages user sessions after a successful sign-in.
We'll cover the following...
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, we’ll make do by using the global state instead of state management libraries.
Since we have been building our application under the umbrella of the App component, it will be sufficient to manage the session state in the App component using React’s local state. The App component only needs to keep track of an authenticated user (session). ...