Understanding client-side authentication
First of all, we are going to use token-based authentication for both local users (e-mail/password) and social logins (OAuth). If the users choose to log in through a social network, it is done through OAuth. However, once the identity of the user is confirmed, the rest of the process is token-based.
Authentication is one of the most important parts of our e-commerce application. It not only allows the users to log in, sign up, sign in and sign out, but also allows the app to keep a track of sellers and buyers of each product. Next, we are going to explore how the Angular client exercises the API to save new users/products to the database and to interact with the backend authentication mechanisms.
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