Securing Restful APIs with Nodejs and Express

Date: 2022-03-16

This tutorial demonstrates securing RESTful APIs in a Node.js and Express application using JSON Web Tokens (JWTs). JWTs, an open standard, provide secure, stateless communication between client and server. The tutorial details setting up Node.js, creating a project structure, and implementing middleware for authentication (verifying JWTs) and authorization (checking user roles). A sample application with protected endpoints is built and explained. The process involves creating a package.json, handling authentication and authorization in separate files (auth.js, roles.js), and defining routes (messages.js). The application is then run and tested using Postman.

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