React Next.js – Cookie Based Secure Authentication System

All great apps require a secure and performant authentication system before going live. There is a lot of discussion about the insecurities associated with saving JWT tokens in local storage for authentication purposes.

Generally, cookies are considered a much better solution when it comes to building secure authentication. HTTP-only cookies are not accessible to JavaScript in the browser, unlike local storage. Your server will issue an HTTP-only cookie to the client (browser) and it will include the cookie in its headers each time a request is sent to its origin server. So your server will have control over the cookie it issues.

With the help of some npm libraries, we will also be able to protect ourselves from CSRF (cross-site request forgery) attacks which are generally associated with cookie-based authentication.

By the end of this course not only you will have to build a production-ready fast and secure authentication system, but also have a solid boilerplate project that can be used as a base starter kit for all your future projects. This way you save a lot of time and headache of setting up the base project with login, registration, authentication, protected pages, etc

So if you have been concerned about the security of your apps, this course is your ultimate solution.