macklemoreshair

I’ve been thinking through what has recently been the biggest pain in the ass in the recent react project I did, and id like to know if I’m crazy or if we did this wrong.

We have a few thousand lines of code specifically for managing users and a simple wrapper around our dynamo backend.

We couldn’t find a react component for login flows, so we build all this logic ourselves

- login page w/ social login - register page - logout - logic for redirecting you if you were already logged in - logic for redirecting you to login if you aren’t logged in - forgot password - verify - demo user account - notifying users of password requirements - handling failed registration - handling failed logins - handling google social login

We integrated with cognito and dynamo, but I think that even with firebase or aws amplify we would have had to write a lot of the logic ourselves.

Did we do something wrong? Is this just what you have to do to get logins and a per user backend working?