The line between middleware and application software is blurred, which is why this chapter introduces both together. Middleware is software that has been abstracted out of the application layer for a ...

Classic ring handlers are hard to test and 99% of time are impure functions. The classic ring handler goes like this: Add dependencies (DB connection, client with internal secret, etc) to the request ...

In this first example code, I think the comment is bit confusing. It says it's not secure and it's the recommended approach as well. However, it's actually doing a full session lookup from the ...