Authentication and Authorization
The concept of authentication (proving that the user is who they claim to be) and authorization (making sure that the authenticated user should or should not be able to perform certain operations on our API) is very complex, and several good (and thick) books are dedicated to it. In this chapter, we will explore the topics of authentication and authorization from a very practical standpoint and from our FARM-stack perspective.
We will begin with a very simple yet robust and extensible setup for our FastAPI backend, based on JWT – arguably the most popular authentication method in the last couple of years. Then, we will see how to integrate our JWT-based authentication methods into React, leveraging some of React’s coolest and newest features – namely Hooks, Context, and React Router.
The topics we will cover in this chapter are the following:
- The user model and how it relates to our other resources
- A brief overview...
