Note: If you haven't yet read through the Authentication Basics post, you should go read through it now before moving on. Intro What we'll be working with is a simple todo list organizer and adding user authentication on it so that a user will only see his/her todo items
This is the last self-directed, larger-scale, full-stack application that you'll build in this course. Up to this point you've learned and practiced everything you need to know in order to build beautiful, data-driven web applications that can provide a real benefit to users. This will be a chance for you
This is part 3 in a series of tutorials about authentication. If you haven't already, get some additional context by going through the other parts: 1. Authentication Basics 2. Token Auth with JWTs Part 1 - Server Setup 3. Token Auth with JWTs Part 2 - React + Redux SET UP
This is part 2 of a multi-part series on setting up user authentication in a MERN-stack application using JSON Web Tokens. If you haven't been following along, please visit the other posts for a full understanding of the current project: 1. Authentication Basics 2. Token Auth with JWTs Part 1
Authentication is the process of allowing a user of your application to create an account, sign in, have specific user permissions, get data that only concerns them as a user, etc. Authentication includes a security concern (we don't want people to be able to see or manipulate each other's data)