Creating a role field for Users #236

[fozziethebeat]

This creates a new field in the User table for the user role and sets it to general by default.

Then, when users sign in, it checks against a shortlist of user IDs for each provider type, if the user id matches the shortlist, they're updated to be an admin. That role is further forwarded to the user's token and session objects so it can be verified in the client side and at the API routes.

Closes #236

[AbdBarho]

This perhaps not necessary for the MVP, but does it make sense to use an array of roles?
In this case, a standard user would have an empty roles array.

what do you think?

[fozziethebeat]

This perhaps not necessary for the MVP, but does it make sense to use an array of roles? In this case, a standard user would have an empty roles array.

what do you think?

I've tried that before in other projects and I think it was just kind of confusing. Also most frameworks recommend a single role value per user. Right now I think we have a strict hierarchy of abilities associated with roles so a single value is simpler and works well enough. When we find out there's roles that don't fully subsume each other then we should investigate how to make an array of roles work well.