CHAPTER 6
Using Sessions and OAuth to Authorize and Authenticate Users in Node.js Apps
Security is an important aspect of any real-world web application. This is especially true nowadays, because our apps don’t function in silos anymore. We, as developers, can and should leverage numerous third-party services (e.g., Twitter, GitHub) or become service providers ourselves (e.g., provide a public API).
We can makes our apps and communications secure with the usage of various approaches, such as token-based authentication and/or OAuth (http://oauth.net). Therefore, in this practical guide, I dedicate the whole chapter to matters of authorization, ...
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