Chapter 7. Building Authentication in Node.js
In the previous chapter, you automated the building of the application with Gulp. You’ll shift gears here and move on to authentication. In this chapter, you will be building a new, demo authentication app in Node.js outside of the social app you’ve been building. In the next chapter, you will integrate this authentication strategy into your social app.
Introducing Token Authentication
In any application, you need to authenticate the user making the requests to the server. There are two ways to do this with an Angular application:
Cookie-based authentication: This works like a traditional web application. ...
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