Questionable global variable for persistent login

[ionwyn]

At the moment, for persistent login, I've implemented a global variable in commit 5919f4b on index.js for persistent login (meaning all components are aware of the existence or absence of a logged in user).

I wonder if this is a good practice. It seems suspicious. Is this an anti-pattern to Redux?

While this was an easy implementation, I suspect that it'd be better to use Intersect/FuseAuthorization or pass it through Provider.