Auth menu in Base template


Some things we need to see in all pages are global navigation and information and links from authentication system. Let's create second one. With Flask-Login it is pretty simple. It offers us current_user  variable accessible in all templates. To show current user information in all pages we need to modify our base template.

Here is a part of code I've added to header and with some style improvements.
        ...
        <div class="c-header">
            <div class="slds-grid">
                <div class="slds-col">
                    <span class="slds-icon_container slds-icon-custom-custom5" title="Description of icon when needed">
                        <svg style="width: 50px; height:50px;" class="slds-icon" aria-hidden="true">
                            <use xlink:href="/static/slds/icons/custom-sprite/svg/symbols.svg#custom5"></use>
                        </svg>
                    </span>
                    <h1 class="c-header-title">Salesforce Backup Service</h1>
                </div>
                <div class="slds-col">
                    <div class="c-auth-subheader">
                        {% if current_user.is_authenticated %}
                            <span>You are logged in as <b>{{ current_user.username }}</b> | <a href="/auth/logout">Logout</a></span>
                        {% else %}
                            <a href="/auth/login">Login</a></span>
                        {% endif %}
                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
        ...







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