Angular4 session handling

Question

I have a sailsjs backend for API's and I want to use Angular4 for my frontend. I was wondering, how can I handle sessions on Angular? I tried reading the documentation and was unable to come up with anything.

Specifically I need to be able to handle the login, log out, CSRF protection, etc. Is it possible to use Angular4 in Sails because Sails has all of that built in?

Answer 1

As you want to use sails with Angular4 you may need add sails.io.js in your index.html as <script src="/assets/sails.io/sails.io.js"></script> ,keeping your sails.io.js in assets/sails.io/ folder then import SailsModule and register the sails module in your in app.module.ts .Also add

imports:[SailsModule.forRoot()]

You may need to inject SailsService in the constructor and ngOnInit() call the connect() method of SailsService. Then you can use request(options):Observable method of SailsService to get the request(check http://sailsjs.com/documentation/reference/web-sockets/socket-client/io-socket-request and check http://sailsjs.com/documentation/concepts/sessions) with the help of req.session you can get session value and property.