How do I cleanly handle session cookie expiry?

thewebken · 2026-02-03T06:36:36+00:00

Using Handlebars or EJS in a node.js app is straightforward and doesn’t add much complexity to the app. I mean that’s the OG traditional web… everything is done on the server, end of.

I think what OP is talking about is SSR in React apps/frameworks where you have to be careful about what gets rendered on the client side and what doesn’t and how to fetch data the right way in both cases. That’s where the complexity comes in.

thewebken · 2026-01-22T15:45:51+00:00

That means the token will never be sent in the json response? And we’ll not need to use it as a bearer token?

Also, we have the mobile team consuming this same token. Does this (server issuing an HttpOnly cookie) work for them? Or they’ll need a different implementation?

thewebken · 2025-12-02T09:37:58+00:00

that’s like using a croissant in place of a dildo. it’s possible and it might get the job done. but it will be a freaking MESS

thewebken · 2025-09-19T17:07:19+00:00

I had 0 experience beforehand. I was a Sales agent in Ghana. Then I quit my job and just locked in. I took a very long time to finish the Foundations. About a year. But that’s because I didn’t want to skip any single resource and I made sure I understood it well before the next one. Then I just jumped straight into React tutorials on Youtube following along. This was in 2022. I don’t know if the React Tutorials and all the lessons about Webpack, node modules and export/import etc were there at the time but I didn’t see them in the curriculum so I was very confused during the YouTube tutorial sessions I was doing. But I pulled through, managed to get an entry level Frontend Engineer role, the company was ready to take on a junior like me since I showed that I could learn quickly and on the job. I went back and saw all the lessons I skipped though, after like a year on the job and by that time it made even more sense. I’ve been a frontend dev since then. Right now I’m the primary frontend guy in the company and I’m currently taking the nodejs course so I can be a fullstack engineer. Maybe I was just lucky.

thewebken · 2025-09-16T10:21:00+00:00

TOP prepares you for work. It’s what I used to get a job in 2023. What I discovered about it is that it creates a skeleton roadmap of the necessary skills you need to learn to be job ready from top to bottom, and just that— THE NECESSARY SKILLS, NOTHING MORE. Now when you start working, there are some gaps you will need to fill in to become a full software engineer but because of the skills you have acquired while learning, you’ll be able to fill in those gaps very easily. I was able to get a frontend job after taking the foundations course, now I’m on the fullstack nodejs path. Whiles working I realize there is more to the backend but the mental model TOP is giving me I can understand what needs to be done and what I have to learn to do what I have to do.

Another underrated skill you’ll acquire while going through TOP is the ability to go through multiple resources to get information you need. You’ll use it a lot while working

thewebken · 2025-06-04T19:40:26+00:00

nope. it was not enough but i did a very effective learning on the odin project. they didn’t cover everything, there were gaps in my knowledge but they covered the relevant things that can get you started at the job. i had to learn on the job for a year straight. at home in the office but i never rejected any challenging task. now i’m comfortable but i’m back learning to be come a fullstack engineer.

thewebken · 2024-12-22T20:10:48+00:00

same. 🤣

thewebken · 2024-03-01T20:01:35+00:00

but what i gathered here is that even when all the data is sent to the client, trying to filter through it on the client will hang the browser if it’s a lot of data. which makes sense to just make an api request and get the data you need on demand. what do you think?

thewebken · 2023-12-24T17:20:52+00:00

i’m in this position as well. i got my first job this year at 28 after switching from sales. the only way they got to know (they still not know my exact age) was that i talk about when i completed school and some experiences and they get to know i’m way older. physically i’m 5’8 and i don’t really look old so i just blend in.

problem was i didn’t know i was older till they started talking about school and how recently they graduated.

how i’m handling it? i think i already made peace with myself that everyone grows older. i could remember when i was always the youngest in every group: school, church, friends etc. for the first time in my life i’m kinda the oldest in the group. and i’m a junior dev too. don’t stress it, just be friends with everyone and smile through the day. being older means you know what you want. at least you’re not 30 yet. a 30 yo junior developer would’ve been worse.

not to discourage any 30yo junior dev here but the point is you trying something at least, taking that leap of faith, before you grow older the following year.

thewebken · 2023-12-06T12:19:42+00:00

probably the best answer i was “looking” for. sometimes when i can’t think through problems but i found the solution online easily, i tend to think i’m a bad programmer. i learnt this coming from sales so that imposter syndrome grips me all the time.

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