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A Blueprint for Production-Ready Web Applications

You're reading from   A Blueprint for Production-Ready Web Applications Leverage industry best practices to create complete web apps with Python, TypeScript, and AWS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803248509
Length 284 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Philip Jones Philip Jones
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 Setting Up Our System
2. Chapter 1: Setting Up Our System for Development FREE CHAPTER 3. Part 2 Building a To-Do App
4. Chapter 2: Creating a Reusable Backend with Quart 5. Chapter 3: Building the API 6. Chapter 4: Creating a Reusable Frontend with React 7. Chapter 5: Building the Single-Page App 8. Part 3 Releasing a Production-Ready App
9. Chapter 6: Deploying and Monitoring Your Application 10. Chapter 7: Securing and Packaging the App 11. Index 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding password management pages

We need to allow users to manage their passwords. This is quite involved as users often forget their password and hence a secure mechanism to reset the password is also required.

Changing a password

For the user to change their password, they have to supply their existing password and a strong replacement password. Therefore, the frontend needs to send both to the backend and display relevant errors if the current password is incorrect or the new one is too weak. This logic is contained in the following code, which should be added to frontend/src/pages/ChangePassword.tsx:

import axios from "axios"; 
import { FormikHelpers } from "formik";
import { useContext } from "react";
import { useNavigate } from "react-router-dom";
import { ToastContext } from "src/ToastContext";
import { useMutation } from "src/query";
interface IForm {
  currentPassword: string;
  newPassword...
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