Comprehensive Enhancements to User Experience, Security, and Codebase Maintainability

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Major Updates and Enhancements

This pull request introduces a comprehensive range of improvements and features aimed at enhancing the user experience, securing user interactions, and improving the codebase's maintainability.

Key Features:

• Enhanced Steam Integration: Streamlined Steam account linkage with improved guidance and error handling.
• Dynamic UI Feedback: Introduced new loaders with animations to give users clear feedback during operations.
• Robust Session Management: Overhauled session and cookie management to enhance security and user feedback.
• Codebase Refinement: Refactored and commented extensively for better maintainability and understanding.
• Security Enhancements: Strengthened security measures across user authentication and session handling.

Detailed Changes:

• Authorization and Steam Integration:
  • Updates to form handling in AuthorizeForm.tsx, improving the handling of Steam ID session storage and user validation.
  • Enhancements in steamAuth.ts utilities for better Steam login URL generation and verification of Steam user assertions.
• Checkout Process Enhancements:
  • Introduction of global and intermittent spinners in CheckoutProcess.tsx to provide users with feedback during the checkout operations.
  • Improved error handling and user feedback mechanisms to address various stages of the checkout process, including username verification and basket creation.
• Session Management:
  • Enhanced session management in flash-session.server.ts, including better error and success message handling.
  • Implementation details in session storage to ensure data consistency and reliability during user interactions.
• UI/UX Improvements:
  • CSS enhancements for loaders and alternative text visibility in the checkout modals, aimed at improving user experience during network requests or waiting periods.
• Error Handling and Notifications:
  • Robust error handling in error-notification.tsx and related files, ensuring users are well-informed during failures or missteps in the process flow.
• General Code Improvements:
  • Various refactoring and cleanup efforts to ensure code efficiency and maintainability.

Goals:

The updates aim to make the platform more intuitive, secure, and easier to maintain, ultimately providing a smoother and more secure user experience.

Files Modified:

• Over 50 files modified with significant refactoring and enhancements.