Implement "Sessions" and Write API Function to Access Session Variables | Use Sessions w/ Angular Guards

[michelletaing]

When a user logs into the application, we would like to start a new session in the backend.

• Sessions allow us to prevent users who aren't logged in from accessing other pages of our site.
• Sessions also allow us to access the username, password, (whatever other variables we want), etc. of the user who logs in. This allows the frontend to display data that pertains to that specific user.
  • I'm assuming we would need an API function that returns the user id of the user currently logged in -- details are still to be worked out.
• We can use this package to implement sessions: https://gowebexamples.com/sessions/

[michelletaing]

Reopening since we are experiencing some issues retrieving session variables on the front end.

I will use the session values in conjunction with Angular Guards to prevent the user from accessing other pages of our site if they are not successfully logged in.

[michelletaing]

DONE guards have been implemented only authenticated users can access the rest of the site im so proud of us