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Building Distributed Applications in Gin

You're reading from   Building Distributed Applications in Gin A hands-on guide for Go developers to build and deploy distributed web apps with the Gin framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801074858
Length 482 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mohamed Labouardy Mohamed Labouardy
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Inside the Gin Framework
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Gin FREE CHAPTER 3. Section 2: Distributed Microservices
4. Chapter 2: Setting Up API Endpoints 5. Chapter 3: Managing Data Persistence with MongoDB 6. Chapter 4: Building API Authentication 7. Chapter 5: Serving Static HTML in Gin 8. Chapter 6: Scaling a Gin Application 9. Section 3: Beyond the Basics
10. Chapter 7: Testing Gin HTTP Routes 11. Chapter 8: Deploying the Application on AWS 12. Chapter 9: Implementing a CI/CD Pipeline 13. Chapter 10: Capturing Gin Application Metrics 14. Assessments 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 4: Building API Authentication

This chapter is dedicated to the best practices and recommendations to follow while building a public REpresentational State Transfer (REST) application programming interface (API). It explores how to write an authentication middleware to secure the access to the API endpoints and how to serve them through HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS).

In this chapter, we will focus on the following main topics:

  • Exploring authentication
  • Introducing JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Web Tokens (JWTs)
  • Persisting client sessions and cookies
  • Authenticating with Auth0
  • Building an HTTPS server

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to build a RESTful API with both private and public endpoints.

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