Version 2.2 of Foal has been released! Here are the improvements that it brings. Authentication Improvement for Single-Page Applications (SPA) When building a SPA with cookie-based authentication, it can sometimes be difficult to know if the user is logged in or to obtain certain information about the user ( , etc). isAdmin Since the authentication token is stored in a cookie with the directive set to (to mitigate XSS attacks), the front-end application has no way of knowing if a user is logged in, except by making an additional request to the server. httpOnly true To solve this problem, version 2.2 adds a new option called that allows you to set an additional cookie that the frontend can read with the content you choose. This cookie is synchronized with the session and is refreshed at each request and destroyed when the session expires or when the user logs out. userCookie In the following example, the cookie is empty if no user is logged in or contains certain information about him/her otherwise. This is particularly useful if you need to  display UI elements based on user characteristics. user Server-side code { (!user) { ;
  } .stringify({
    email: user.email,
    isAdmin: user.isAdmin
  });
} ({
  cookie: ,
  user: fetchUser(User),
  userCookie: userToJSON(ctx.user)
}) ApiController { ( ) () readProducts(ctx: Context) { products = Product.find({ owner: ctx.user }); HttpResponseOK(products);
  }

} ( ) function userToJSON user: User| undefined if return 'null' return JSON @UseSessions true ( ) => ctx, services export class @Get '/products' @UserRequired async const await return new Cookies Client-side code user = .parse( ( )); const JSON decodeURIComponent /* cookie value */ New Look of the Command createapp The output of the command has been prettified to be more "welcoming". createapp Support of Nested Routes in foal generate|g rest-api <name> Like the command , now supports nested routes. g controller g rest-api Let's say we have the following file structure: src/
 '- app/
  | | | | | - controllers/ - api.controller.ts '- index.ts
  '- entities/ - user.entity.ts
    '- index.ts Running these commands will add and register the following files: foal rest-api api/product --auth --register
foal rest-api api/order --auth --register generate generate src/
 '- app/
  | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - controllers/ - api/ - product.controller.ts - order.controller.ts '- index.ts - api.controller.ts '- index.ts
  '- entities/ - product.entity.ts - order.entity.ts - user.entity.ts
    '- index.ts Previously published at https://foalts.org/blog/2021/02/25/version-2.2-release-notes

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