Still pushing forward with user authorization despite lack of progress. Need to make a service that can be injected and invoked on every page. It will be the key to checking if someone is logged in and to obtaining the username/id.
Finally making some good progress on authentication/user sessions. Did not end up creating a service, just put a get request in the LoginController that executes if the user variable is undefined (which happens on a page reload). Next, need to rework user sign up and finess more of the user authentication features.
Updated homepage styles and various other formatting. Also refined login/logout functions. Need to test user adding next