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Using HTTPS and SSL - React.js Tutorial
From the course: React: Authentication
Using HTTPS and SSL
- [Instructor] Okay, at this point in the course, we've seen quite a few different aspects of user authentication in the context of full-stack React, and now, it's time to talk about a few so-called best practices when incorporating authentication into a React application. These are things that we haven't covered directly in the course, but nevertheless, they're very important to keep in mind, since a lot of times, they can make the difference between your user's data being secure and your user's data being easily accessible by hackers. Now, the first of these best practices that we're going to take a look at is that in all your web applications that deal with sensitive data, you need to use HTTPSS, SSL, TLS. Colloquially, these are all names for the same basic idea, so let's talk about that here. If you go to sites like Google or Facebook or LinkedIn, and obviously, many others as well, you'll see that, up in the left hand corner of the page, the browser displays this little lock…
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