Session management
Session management is a critical aspect of web development as it enables a web application to identify and track a user’s actions over a certain period. In Flask web applications, session management is typically implemented on the server side using Flask’s in-built session object or a Flask extension such as Flask-Session; on the frontend React side, you can use React’s localStorage or sessionStorage.
Flask thrives on its simplicity as a framework of choice for Python that makes it easy to build small to enterprise-sized web applications. Flask can manage user sessions using the built-in session object and some of the available Flask extensions contributed by the community members.
A session object is a dictionary-like object that is stored on the server and can be accessed by the client via a secure session cookie. To use a session object, a secret key must be set in the Flask application. This secret key is used to encrypt and sign the...
