Setting up the authentication workflow

In Chapter 4, Securing the Application, we learned how to implement a security layer in Quarkus using JWT, and then used it to protect the backend side of the task manager. Attempting to consume the HTTP API from the frontend without an adequate authentication workflow and infrastructure would result in forbidden and unauthorized responses. In this chapter, we’ll see how to create an auth service that will enable us to perform login requests to obtain a JWT and use it to authorize the requests to protected endpoints.

Now, let’s learn how to set up Quarkus to be able to consume its API from a React application running in dev mode.

Configuring Quarkus for React dev mode

When we deliver our application to a production environment, both the React frontend side and the HTTP API will be served by Quarkus. However, during the development phase, we’ll be running the React application in dev mode using the npm start command...