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Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications
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Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications

by Daniel Li
September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
764 pages
20h 6m
English
Packt Publishing
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Security – Authentication and Authorization

So far in this book, we have developed a simple API that allows anonymous users to create, retrieve, modify, and delete users. This is insecure and impractical for any real-world applications. Therefore, in this chapter, we will begin to secure our API by implementing a rudimentary authentication and authorization layer on top of it. This will also give us a chance to practice the TDD process and work with the CI servers.

The purpose of this chapter is to show you how to implement a stateless authentication and authorization scheme using JSON Web Tokens (JWTs). Being stateless is extremely important to ensure the scalability of our application, something which we will discuss in Chapter 18, Robust ...

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