Login and Signup Pages

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: