Build Your First Router in Node with Express
If you’ve done any web development with Node in the last few years, you’ve probably used Express. Even if you haven’t used it directly, many frameworks meant to make web development even simpler are still built on Express. One of the key features in Express is the ability to create routes. An infinite combination of URLs can hit the same Express server, and routes are how you can determine which URLs run what piece of...
Spring Boot 2.1: Outstanding OIDC, OAuth 2.0, and Reactive API Support
Spring Boot 2.1 was recently released, eight months after the huge launch of Spring Boot 2.0. The reason I’m most excited about Spring Boot 2.1 to me is its improved performance and OpenID Connect (OIDC) support from Spring Security 5.1. The combination of Spring Boot and Spring Security has provided excellent OAuth 2.0 support for years, and making OIDC a first-class citizen simplifies its configuration quite a bit. For those that aren’t aware, OIDC is...
Three Developer Tools I'm Thankful For
I ❤️ Thanksgiving. It’s one of my favorite holidays. I love it because it’s a time of reflection and gratitude. As an open source developer, I have a lot to be thankful for. Many of the tools I use are created by developers from around the world, and I get to use them for free! I’m also very thankful for my awesome job at @oktadev. I get to write example apps with open source software,...
Build a Simple CRUD App with Spring Boot and Vue.js
In this tutorial, you’re going to build a complete CRUD web application using Vue.js for the client and Spring Boot as the resource server. You’ll also secure the application using OAuth 2.0 and Okta. CRUD is Create, Read, Update, and Delete. It’s kinda the “Hello World” of the server world. Like “Hello server!” If you can add data, updated it, read it, and delete it, you’ve pretty much got all the basic tools down for...
Use TypeScript to Build a Node API with Express
Like it or not, JavaScript has been helping developers power the Internet since 1995. In that time, JavaScript usage has grown from small user experience enhancements to complex full-stack applications using Node.js on the server and one of many frameworks on the client such as Angular, React, or Vue. Today, building JavaScript applications at scale remains a challenge. More and more teams are turning to TypeScript to supplement their JavaScript projects. Node.js server applications can...
Create and Verify JWTs with Node
Authentication on the internet has evolved quite a bit over the years. There are many ways to do it, but what worked well enough in the 90s doesn’t quite cut it today. In this tutorial, I’ll briefly cover some older, simpler forms of authentication, then show you how a more modern and more secure approach. By the end of this post, you’ll be able to create and verify JWTs yourself in Node. I’ll also show...
Tutorial: Create and Verify JWTs in Java
Java support for JWT (JSON Web Tokens) used to require a lot of work: extensive customization, hours lost resolving dependencies, and pages of code just to assemble a simple JWT. Not anymore! This tutorial will show you how to use an existing JWT library to do two things: Generate a JWT Decode and verify a JWT You’ll notice the tutorial is pretty short. That’s because it’s that easy. If you’d like to dig deeper, take...
Add Secure Authentication to your WordPress Site in 15 Minutes
Do you run a WordPress site and want to avoid managing a separate list of user accounts? Have you ever wanted to add two-factor authentication to WordPress? Typically WordPress keeps its own database of usernames and passwords, but if you run multiple websites, I’m sure you’re familiar with the pain of keeping lists of users in sync. Wouldn’t it be great if you could manage all your users in one place, letting them log in...
Build a Basic CRUD App with Angular and Node
In recent years, single page applications (SPAs) have become more and more popular. A SPA is a website that consists of just one page. That lone page acts as a container for a JavaScript application. The JavaScript is responsible for obtaining the content and rendering it within the container. The content is typically obtained from a web service and RESTful APIs have become the go-to choice in many situations. The part of the application making...
Add Login to Your ASP.NET Core MVC App
One of the improvements in the latest version of ASP.NET Core (MVC ) is a new and simplified authentication integration. However, managing authentication on your own is still a considerable burden. Not only do you need to handle signup and login, but you also have to set up the database, manage security aspects of registration and login, and take care of session management. Since the integration of external auth providers has never been more comfortable,...