July 2020
Intermediate to advanced
181 pages
3h 53m
English
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Chapter 4. Introduction to Authentication
Authentication and identity are integral parts of almost any application. Knowing who the user is, what permissions they have, whether or not they are signed in, and having a unique identifier for the user allow your application to render the correct views and return the proper data for the currently signed-in user.
Most applications require mechanisms to handle user sign-up, user sign-in, password encryption, and updating, as well as countless other tasks around identity management. Modern applications often call for things like open authentication (OAUTH), multifactor authentication (MFA), and time-based on time passwords (TOTP).
In the past, developers had to hand roll all of this authentication functionality from scratch. This task alone could take a team of developers weeks, or even months, to get right and to do so securely. Today there are fully managed authentication services like Auth0, Okta, and Amazon Cognito that handle all of this for us.
In this chapter, you will learn how to properly and securely implement authentication in a React application using Amazon Cognito with AWS Amplify.
The app that you will be building is a basic application that requires authentication in order to be viewed and also has a profile page showing profile information about the signed-in user. If the user is signed in, they can navigate between a public route, a profile route with an authentication form, and a protected route viewable only to signed-in ...
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