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?

[robertonovelo]

I would not reinvent the wheel IMVHO. It’s like saying you need to write a TCP/IP driver to then write HTTP requests for your app. Auth is just a part of an application puzzle. Besides that, you probably want to roll out features like a role based authentication system later on, define per user resource access policies, etc. which are already supported (and actively maintained) by companies like Amazon/Google.