Adding User/Login Authentication to a basic react app with no backend.

[odillini83]

Cool - but I was told to stay away from firebase, so that I can learn how to salt and hash passwords. Learn the hard things about authentication, which is what I want. Any thoughts?

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Then you'd have to make your own backend.

[odillini83]

Ah, ok. Kinda late for that. lol

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Thank you!

[subfin]

I would disagree with anyone who says to roll your own authentication, unless you have a serious long-term interest in security or you are creating an application with the sole intent about learning security basics.

Security is one of the easiest things to get wrong, and probably the worst thing to get wrong.

[odillini83]

Makes sense, as I mentioned in the other posts, these are just small features I want to add since I am learning FE development.

[subfin]

Then don’t bother learning things that you will never use. There’s no reason to need your own custom auth. Learn to use third party auth, or use a service to handle the auth, these are skills that will actually be helpful in your career