Creating AngularJS, Node and Token Authentication

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Pritesh Patel edited this page Apr 9, 2019 · 3 revisions

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Introduction

Growth in mobile app usage led to session/cookie-based authentication no longer being the best option
For mobile-ready Web API
Technology covered - authentication framework Sails, Yeoman, JWTs
Concepts - OAuth, Email validation, CORS no longer an issue with JWTs
What is a JWT? - works well with mobile. Consists of header, payload and signature. No database lookup require

Register in Front End Views

Pre-requisites - Node.js,
install Yeoman, bower, grunt, yeoman angular generator
create application using yeoman angular generator
run grunt serve to launch template application
template includes karma, jasmine and phantomjs - for more info see pluralsight 'Angular and Node.js' course by Alexander Zanfir

Register View

yo angular:view register - can also be used to create controllers, services etc.

ui-router

install ui-router (bower component) and configure state for /register

App Theme

Bootstrap themes from Bootswatch and theme from Bootsnipp

ui-sref active

use to highlight current page in navigation

Register Front End Controllers and Services