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Permissions are everywhere, and very important to secure your application from unauthorized actions and potential data loss. A system to handle and combine permissions can be overwhelming and maybe too complex, but there’s a better way called 🔐 Bitwise Permission System!
🛠 How to build your own
I will be doing this in JavaScript, but the system is pretty much in every language possible.
Operators
Let’s quickly discuss the bitwise operators. I’ll give you a small overview here.
Bits is the unit 0 or 1. It's the smallest unit of data a computer can process and store. For example you can convert the number 3 into bits which would be 110. I'm not going any deeper on bits, there's a lot of resources in the internet.
We are going to build a small project to check if a person is allowed to enter different areas in our headquarter.
