Applying session management
Session management is a feature used for managing requests and responses created by a user’s access to an application. It is also about creating and sharing data across a user session. Many frameworks usually include session handling features in their security plugins but not FastAPI. Creating user sessions and storing session data are two separate programming concerns in FastAPI. We use a JWT to establish a user session and Starlette’s SessionMiddleware to create and retrieve session data. Creating user sessions and storing session data are two entirely different programming solutions in FastAPI. We use JWT to establish a user session and Starlette’s SessionMiddleware to create and retrieve session data.
Creating user sessions
We have already proven the importance of JWT when it comes to securing FastAPI microservice applications in Chapter 7, Securing the REST APIs. However, here, the JWT is applied to create a session based...