Creating a password-protected dashboard

Protecting pages in a web application is essential for maintaining security and privacy. By extension, this can help prevent unauthorized access to sensitive information. In this section, you will be implementing a protected dashboard page in a Flask-React web application.

A dashboard is a user-friendly interface that provides an overview of data and information. The data that’s displayed on a dashboard can come from a variety of sources, such as databases, spreadsheets, and APIs.

Flask backend

The following code demonstrates an implementation that allows an admin user to log in and see a protected dashboard page. We will implement minimalist login and logout endpoints that define login and logout functionality and protect the dashboard endpoint. The application uses the Flask-Session library to store session data in the filesystem:

from flask import Flask, request, jsonify, sessionfrom flask_session import Session
app = Flask...