My frustration is slowly getting over me and I'm on the verge of quitting everything

[errant cloak]

I have decided to learn OAuth2 and try to implement it in to my project but as I'm trying to learn, nothing makes sense, I can't seam to understand how the backend and the frontend communicates with each other, and I'm slowly starting to realize that this isn't going to work, so I'm deciding to ditch the Angular frontend and use some template generator like Thymeleaf just to show of my backend skills. My question is, how difficult would it be to migrate Thymeleaf to an actual frontend like Angular in the future ?

[crystal shore]

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sense to me. I feel overwhelmed and discouraged. I don't know where to start or how to make progress. It's frustrating because I want to understand and succeed, but it feels like an impossible task. I'm losing motivation and questioning if it's even worth it to continue.

[muted bridge]

you are a single person, so definitionally you only do a single person's worth of work

so worst case, just as long as it takes you to do the thymeleaf version

best case, a lot less since you already did the UI and there is some stuff you can copy paste

[errant cloak]

It's frustrating because I really want to use Angular, last time you linked me some videos and in most of them they for some reason use a provider like google or GitHub to login, but I just can't find any information about the use of the basic login (no provider) and it's frustrating to the point I want to quit...

[muted bridge]

Then quit, go outside, play basketball

come back when you are fresh

there is no reason to grind away

[errant cloak]

I am fresh, I just don't know what I'm looking for, I have the idea, but I need the "How to"

[muted bridge]

hmm

okay so "basic login, no provider" is the opposite of oauth

oauth is all about "log in with provider"

if you don't want that then things become a lot simpler

[errant cloak]

ok, let's ditch OAuth2, what do i use instead ? jwt ?

[muted bridge]

hmm

we can do either JWT or session auth

I would reccomend session auth TBH

so the way this would work is on your server, have a /login route

and we render a form on the page

classic web dev stuff

err

okay your options

1. All angular, use JWTs for auth. Store JWT in local storage

2. Mostly angular, have the login/register pages rendered in thymelleaf, store auth in session

3. No angular, all thymeleaf, store auth in session

i'm not sure how to do All angular, store auth in session

since session stuff is stored in cookies, to set a cookie you need to make a post request through an http form (basically)

and the angular app wouldn't play nice with that

but you can just have a /login http route that returns a JWT

thats fine

[errant cloak]

When you refer to mostly angular, can't it just be all on angular instead of introducing thymeleaf ?

[muted bridge]

sure

i'm just not 100% sure the best way to use a session auth then

so JWT would probably be the easiest auth method

[errant cloak]

I think so too, for learning purposes it would be the best option, I actually had a JWT implementation already, but I deleted it all without fully understanding what OAuth2 is actually used for, and dumb me didn't have a backup on GitHub

This is relief honestly, thanks for the explanation