Middleware for Authentication
Explore how to create middleware authentication in an Express application to verify users before executing business logic. Learn to use JSON Web Tokens for secure route handling and practice testing authentication with and without tokens to ensure access control.
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In this lesson, we’ll create a middleware authentication to verify the users before any execution of the business logic can take place. The way middleware authentication works is more natural than creating a function and calling it each time we need to authenticate a user.
Middleware works similarly to calling a function each time. We delegate the authentication to the Express ...