Spring Boot and Angular

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Adding Spring Boot Security with JWT

In the previous chapter, we learned mainly how to generate automated documentation for our created APIs in our Spring Boot project. We learned how to add and use the features and properties of springdoc-openapi, configure the plugin on the project, and access the generated JSON and YAML documentation. We also learned how to implement the Swagger UI to make our documentation interactive and allow us to test endpoints directly on the browser.

This chapter will now focus on the security side of our application. We will discuss the concept of Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) and how it can secure our application. We will also be discussing the features and implementation of Spring Security in Spring Boot, ...