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MongoDB, Express, Angular, and Node.js Fundamentals

You're reading from   MongoDB, Express, Angular, and Node.js Fundamentals Become a MEAN master and rule the world of web applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789808735
Length 362 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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MongoDB, Express, Angular, and Node.js Fundamentals
Preface
1. Introduction to the MEAN Stack FREE CHAPTER 2. Developing RESTful APIs to Perform CRUD Operations 3. Beginning Frontend Development with Angular CLI 4. The MEAN Stack Security 5. Angular Declarables, Bootstrapping, and Modularity 6. Testing and Optimizing Angular Applications Appendix

Node Application Authentication with JWTs


In terms of web applications, we have reached the stage where the application data doesn't only benefit you alone. It is often required to enable a third-party application access/usage of your backend applications and APIs to unleash the full potential of your application. For example, Twitter provides an API to grab its data (for an authenticated user, of course) and makes this usable for all third-party applications. Thus, there's always a reason to have a secure backend application or API.

Authentication simply means the action of proving or showing that something is true or valid. So, we can say that user authentication is the action of validating a user, while authorization is permitting or granting the user access to web resources, features, or pages. In the following section, we will be looking at how a user can be authenticated and authorized using a JSON Web Token.

The Structure of a JWT

JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) transmit restricted information...

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