React Next.js – Cookie Based Secure Authentication System

Learn to build secure production ready react apps with cookie based authentication system instead of using local storage

What you’ll learn:
Learn to implement secure authentication system using cookies
Learn to use cookies instead of local storage
Learn to integrate react and nextjs project with nodejs express and mongodb API
Learn to protect your API with CSRF (cross site request forgery) attacks
Learn to create protected pages
Learn to use context API to build your own redux like state management
Learn to use Ant design and Bootstrap 4 with react and nextjs
Learn to build a boilerplate project that can be used as a base for all your future projects

Requirements
Previous experience with the basics of reactjs

Description
All great apps requires secure and performant authentication system before going live. There is a lot of discussion about the insecurities associated with saving JWT tokens in local storage for authentication purpose.

Generally cookies are considered much better solutions when it comes to building secure authentication. HTTP only cookies are not accessible to JavaScript in browser unlike local storage. Your server will issuehttp only cookie to the client (browser) and it will include cookie in it’s headers each time a request is sent to its origin server. So your server will have control over the cookie it issues.

With the help of some npm libraries, we will also be able to protect ourself from CSRF (cross site request forgery) attacks which are generally associated with cookie based authentication.

By the end of this course not only you will have build a production ready fast and secure authentication system, but also have a solid boilerplate project that can be used a base starter kit for all your future projects. This way you save a lot of time and headache of setting up the base project with login, registration, authentication, protected pages etc

So if you have been concerned about the security of your apps, this course is your ultimate solution.

Who this course is for
Any react node or MERN stack developer looking to build production ready authentication system using cookies
Anyone looking to build a auth ready boilerplate project that can be used as a base for future projects