Lesson: JSON Web Tokens

Lesson overview

API authentication via JSON web tokens (JWT)

Lesson outline

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• A code along lesson implementing JWT from sratch
• This includes setting up db tables, code explanation for logging in, signing and verifying jwts
• Use jsonwebtoken library

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• Lesson conforms to the outline above (unless outline has been modified).
• Lesson follows our Layout Style Guide.

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