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Modern API Development with Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3 - Second Edition

You're reading from  Modern API Development with Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3 - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804613276
Pages 494 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Sourabh Sharma Sourabh Sharma
Profile icon Sourabh Sharma

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1 – RESTful Web Services
2. Chapter 1: RESTful Web Service Fundamentals 3. Chapter 2: Spring Concepts and REST APIs 4. Chapter 3: API Specifications and Implementation 5. Chapter 4: Writing Business Logic for APIs 6. Chapter 5: Asynchronous API Design 7. Part 2 – Security, UI, Testing, and Deployment
8. Chapter 6: Securing REST Endpoints Using Authorization and Authentication 9. Chapter 7: Designing a User Interface 10. Chapter 8: Testing APIs 11. Chapter 9: Deployment of Web Services 12. Part 3 – gRPC, Logging, and Monitoring
13. Chapter 10: Getting Started with gRPC 14. Chapter 11: gRPC API Development and Testing 15. Chapter 12: Adding Logging and Tracing to Services 16. Part 4 – GraphQL
17. Chapter 13: Getting Started with GraphQL 18. Chapter 14: GraphQL API Development and Testing 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Implementing authentication

Before you jump into the Login component development, you will want to figure out how to manage a token received from a successful login response and how to make sure that if the access token has expired, then a refresh token request should be fired before making any call that requires authentication.

The browser allows you to store tokens or any other information in cookies, session storage, and local storage. From the server side, we haven’t opted for cookie or stateful communication, therefore we are left with the remaining two options. Session storage is preferable for more secure applications because it is specific to a given tab, and it gets cleared as soon as you click on the Refresh button or close the tab. We want to manage login persistence between different tabs and page refresh; therefore, we’ll opt for local storage of the browser.

On top of that, you can also store them in the state in the same way you will manage the cart...

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