In this article we will discuss about the reality of refresh and access token and figure out all the fake assumptions from our memory. JSON Web Tokens ( JWT ) JWT tokens are used for authentication. These tokens have three parts: Header, Payload, and...
When you’re working with any website, application, or API, you'll inevitably need to log in and authenticate your user base. One of the more commonly used methods of passing around authentication credentials from one system to another is using a JSON...
Securing your API isn’t optional; it’s essential. In this post, we’ll walk through how to implement JWT (JSON Web Token) authentication in ASP.NET Core so your API knows who’s calling, and what they’re allowed to do. 🔐 What is JWT? JWT stands for J...
When building secure APIs in .NET, JWT (JSON Web Token) is one of the most popular choices for implementing authorization after authentication. It allows the server to authorize requests without storing session data, making it perfect for stateless A...
Authentication and Authorization are two words that sound simple at first, but quickly spiral into complexity once you try to implement them at scale. On the surface, spinning up a basic role-based auth system feels straightforward. There are endless...
Like many of you, I have a workflow. It’s a finely tuned set of tools and habits that lets me move between my different machines—a Mac for primary development, a Windows machine for gaming and testing—without missing a beat. For years, a key piece of...
Authentication Tells you who the user is. It’s all about verifying identity. Authorization Tells you what that user is allowed to do. It’s about checking if the client has permission to access a specific resource. Basic Auth with Access Tokens Here’...
In today’s software landscape, knowing who someone is isn’t enough — we also need to know what they’re allowed to do. That’s the core of authorization. It ensures users can access what they’re supposed to, and nothing more. It defines the boundaries ...
Having the long-lived token copied somewhere nearby, it's now time to retrieve the user from Clerk, but to do so, we need to make a few adjustments. From our index.ts, we need to modify the dotenv import and use import "dotenv/config" instead. Make s...
If you have ever logged into a platform using a provider, you have likely experienced the OAuth flow, whether it was with Google, Facebook, GitHub, or others. For us as users, it's a convenient process because we don't need to remember a new password...
