jwt

updated Jun 1, 2024

    • Getting started/How to use instructions

what i expect from exposés on technologies

  • How do you use jwt to serialize and sign a JSON payload in an express server app?
  • How does jwt verify the received token from a GET request header?
  • How is the problem of [obtaining access to a user’s account indefinitely if the access token is known by an adversary] solved in the json web token library?
  • Where do you put the middleware function that authorises a user visiting a link (or route) on an express.js server?
  • Where in a GET request is the json web token (for an authorised user) in the middleware function saved?
  • What has to be done by an express.js server in order to authorise an authentic user trying to access a link (or route) on the server?
  • How is the json web token portion of the data in the authorization header of an api request retrieved?
    • Brief walk-through of internals/architecture/patterns/best practices

what i expect from exposés on technologies

    • Good-First-Issue production problems

what i expect from exposés on technologies