Spring Security AngularJS demo application

This demo shows you how to use Spring Boot(1.5.2.RELEASE), Spring Security and JWT to protect your backend RESTful web services.

Overview

On server side, we use Spring Boot + Spring Data Rest to expose RESTful web service api, and Spring Security to protect the RESTful web service api. On client side, we use AngularJS to consume RESTful api to get server resources.

Client needs to call /api/login to login first. If it succeeds, server will return a JWT auth token along with response header. Client stores the auth token to broswer's localStorage and add it to request headers of all following api calls.

Server is stateless, meaning it needs to authenticate user for every request by looking up the auth token header on request header list. If it authenticates successfully, server will return the resources, otherwise server denied the request and return 401 error.

Dependencies

you need to install below dependencies to run this demo app.

• jdk 1.8
• bower

Technologies

• Spring Boot (1.5.2.RELEASE)
• Spring Security
• Spring Data Rest
• AngularJS

How to run this demo app

1. use git clone to get this repo to your local machine
2. cd into the project directory
3. run bower install to install angularjs
4. run ./gradlew clean bootRun to start this demo app
5. open your browser and visit http://localhost:8080, use jason/password to login