JSON Web Tokens have become increasingly popular in recent years because of their powerful capabilities to exchange information between servers and services in a verifiable way. (Note: I did not say secure or encrypted :) ) Often JSON Web Tokens or JWTs (pronounced “jot”) are issued by …

In this video we start our 2 Cookie Authorization series by explaining how the approach works and how it can help to secure our applications that use tokens.

In this video we build Authorization (AuthZ) middleware using Node, Express, and JSON Web Tokens (JWT). This tutorial will help you to implement simple access control into your NodeJS/Express API server. Access control can be defined based on a user's Role (Role-based access control, RBAC), or …