jwt

How to Build an Authentication API with JWT Token in Node.js

by Paja Aleksic

This tutorial will teach us how to use JWT in Node.js to secure endpoints and even authenticate users. It’s pretty simple to write code and develop applications. Yet, how do we deal with authentication and most likely, authorization? What is… Read More »How to Build an Authentication API with JWT Token in Node.js

Sessionless Authentication using JWTs (with Node + Express + Passport JS)

by Paja Aleksic

Authentication using stateful user sessions and session_ids stored in the cookie has been a strategy that has worked for decades. But with the rise of service oriented architectures and web services, there has been a push to design applications with the principle of statelessness in… Read More »Sessionless Authentication using JWTs (with Node + Express + Passport JS)