Coding My Way In: The Road to Becoming a Software Engineer #29

Hi, I’m Israel Santana but you can call me Izzy. This is me documenting my journey of becoming a Software Engineer.
My socials:
GitHub: MrItzreal
Instagram: fullstackizzy
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[@MrItzreal]

Topics:
-My upcoming trip overseas.
-Project Update.
-Learning about Authentication and Credentials.
-Improving my Next.js skills.

[@WahabAbdul-e2q]

Really interesting video. Authentication and saving credentials is such a rewarding thing when its implemented. As a user you really take it for granted but as a dev you appreciate the complexity. I want to ask have you used a template or is it all from scratch, I do like your login screen and background

[@MrItzreal]

Thank you for the kind words! I'm building everything from scratch and learning as I go. I had no idea how much work went into authenticating a user.
Now I understand why so many tutorials simply use Google Auth or NextAuth instead of creating their own authentication system.
For the chat UI, I'm going to make one that looks like a standard messenger app. I still need to learn about this thing called WebSockets. I think it's how you connect users who are messaging each other.