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Remi Vledder
14,144 PointsIs there a reason cookies is used as opposed to local- or session storage?
In the React Authentication course, in the step "Preserve the User State with Cookies" cookies are used to store the state of an authenticated user.
As pointed out in https://medium.com/datadriveninvestor/cookies-vs-local-storage-2f3732c7d977, "...cookies are mainly for reading server-side, whereas local storage can only be read by the client-side."
In this case, the react app is a client side application so it seems that local storage could also be good option.
What is the reasoning behind using cookies?
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Christopher Debove
Courses Plus Student 18,373 PointsI don't know really. localstorage would have been a better solution in this case.