Reading-Notes

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Read: 34 - API Integration

How do bearer tokens work?

Bearer tokens are created by the Authentication server.

Describe express middleware

They are functions that run between req and res in HTTP requests.

What is a JWT?

JSON Web Token is a proposed Internet standard for creating data with optional signature and/or optional encryption whose payload holds JSON that asserts some number of claims.

Vocab:

role based access control: or role-based security is an approach to restricting system access to authorized users.

http cookies: a small piece of data that a server sends to a user’s web browser.