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Sourabh Sharma
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Sourabh Sharma is a Senior Development Manager at Oracle with over 20 years of experience in the industry. He is a manager and architect who has been designing on-premise and cloud-based applications using Java, Javascript, and Oracle DB. Sourabh has worked with leading companies and delivered enterprise products and applications. His expertise lies in conceptualizing, modeling, designing, and developing N-tier and cloud-based web applications while leading teams. Sourabh's experience also includes developing microservice-based solutions and implementing various types of workflow and orchestration engines. He believes in continuous learning and sharing knowledge through his books and training.
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Implementing authentication

Before you jump into the Login component development, you will want to figure out how to manage a token received from a successful login response and how to make sure that if the access token has expired, then a refresh token request should be fired before making any call that requires authentication.

The browser allows you to store tokens or any other information in cookies, session storage, and local storage. From the server side, we haven’t opted for cookie or stateful communication, therefore we are left with the remaining two options. Session storage is preferable for more secure applications because it is specific to a given tab, and it gets cleared as soon as you click on the Refresh button or close the tab. We want to manage login persistence between different tabs and page refresh; therefore, we’ll opt for local storage of the browser.

On top of that, you can also store them in the state in the same way you will manage the cart...

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Sourabh Sharma

Sourabh Sharma is a Senior Development Manager at Oracle with over 20 years of experience in the industry. He is a manager and architect who has been designing on-premise and cloud-based applications using Java, Javascript, and Oracle DB. Sourabh has worked with leading companies and delivered enterprise products and applications. His expertise lies in conceptualizing, modeling, designing, and developing N-tier and cloud-based web applications while leading teams. Sourabh's experience also includes developing microservice-based solutions and implementing various types of workflow and orchestration engines. He believes in continuous learning and sharing knowledge through his books and training.
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