Adding and configuring the GenieAuthentication plugin

The easiest way to add authentication to a Genie app is to use the GenieAuthentication plugin. Let’s add it and follow the installation instructions (https://github.com/GenieFramework/GenieAuthentication.jl) to set up our app for authentication.

In a terminal, start the Genie REPL for the TodoMVC app. Go to the application folder and run bin/repl if you are on Linux or macOS, or bin\repl.bat if you are on Windows. Then, in the REPL, type ] to enter the Pkg mode and add the GenieAuthentication plugin:

pkg> add GenieAuthentication

Once the plugin is installed, we need to configure it:

julia> using GenieAuthentication
julia> GenieAuthentication.install(@__DIR__)

By running the install function, the plugin has added all the necessary integrations into our app (views, controller, model, migrations, and so on). You can see all the operations performed by the install function by looking at the output in the...