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Published inOct 2023
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ISBN-139781803248448
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Olatunde Adedeji
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Olatunde Adedeji

Olatunde Adedeji is a seasoned web developer with over 15 years of experience in developing dynamic and detail-oriented enterprise web applications. Along with his extensive experience in developing, maintaining and supporting mobile, web and enterprise applications in Python, Go and JavaScript, Olatunde has consistently delivered excellent services, as team lead, team member or in consultancy capacity. Olatunde is proficient in application design and solution blueprinting; including mastery of application development tools such as: Flask, Django, Gin, React, and NodeJS. When not weaving the web and playing chess, Olatunde spends time with his wife, Adedoyin and two daughters, Mitchelle and Mabel.
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Creating a password-protected dashboard

Protecting pages in a web application is essential for maintaining security and privacy. By extension, this can help prevent unauthorized access to sensitive information. In this section, you will be implementing a protected dashboard page in a Flask-React web application.

A dashboard is a user-friendly interface that provides an overview of data and information. The data that’s displayed on a dashboard can come from a variety of sources, such as databases, spreadsheets, and APIs.

Flask backend

The following code demonstrates an implementation that allows an admin user to log in and see a protected dashboard page. We will implement minimalist login and logout endpoints that define login and logout functionality and protect the dashboard endpoint. The application uses the Flask-Session library to store session data in the filesystem:

from flask import Flask, request, jsonify, sessionfrom flask_session import Session
app = Flask...
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Olatunde Adedeji is a seasoned web developer with over 15 years of experience in developing dynamic and detail-oriented enterprise web applications. Along with his extensive experience in developing, maintaining and supporting mobile, web and enterprise applications in Python, Go and JavaScript, Olatunde has consistently delivered excellent services, as team lead, team member or in consultancy capacity. Olatunde is proficient in application design and solution blueprinting; including mastery of application development tools such as: Flask, Django, Gin, React, and NodeJS. When not weaving the web and playing chess, Olatunde spends time with his wife, Adedoyin and two daughters, Mitchelle and Mabel.
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