Hasty Treat - User Role Systems
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Wes Bos
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2018
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
In this Hasty Treat (Short episode) Scott and Wes discuss user roles, what to think about when creating your own, security implications, etc.
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Show Notes
3:30
- How to manage user role systems
11:30
- Client side best practices
- Don’t rely on front-end role systems as a security measure
14:13
- Where to store your roles
- Start simple and get more complex as needed
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there. |
| 0:06.1 | Strap yourself in and get ready. |
| 0:08.1 | Here is Scott Tolinsky and West Boss. |
| 0:10.5 | Welcome to Syntax in this episode. This is going to be a little hasty treat on |
| 0:17.6 | rolls and even though it's a hasty treat and it's rolls I'm not talking dinner time rules here. I'm talking about |
| 0:25.1 | roll systems and users. So we're going to be talking all about how we both manage our user |
| 0:31.4 | role systems, permission systems, that kind of thing, as well as some |
| 0:35.0 | different strategies that you can take when designing or even thinking about your role system |
| 0:40.3 | why they're kind of important in some of the security implications surrounding all of that stuff. |
| 0:45.0 | So with me as always my name is Scott Tolinsky and with me is Wes Boss. |
| 0:51.0 | What's everyone? How's it going? |
| 0:54.0 | It's going fantastic. |
| 0:55.0 | We just recorded an episode before this, so I have nothing new to tell you. |
| 0:59.0 | Nice. |
| 1:00.0 | Nice. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm glad nothing's happened in the 15 minutes between the two episodes here. |
| 1:05.0 | I went and had some cherries. That's what I had. |
| 1:08.0 | Ooh. That's not nothing. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm going to tell you that right now. That's not nothing. This episode is sponsored by Netify and you've heard us talk about |
| 1:17.8 | Netify before if you have listened to this show because Netify is one of our very most |
| 1:21.7 | favorite companies they do excellent |
| 1:24.0 | excellent hosting for modern web projects. They give you a whole bunch of stuff out of |
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