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Building Web Apps with Spring 5 and Angular

By : Ajitesh Kumar Shukla
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Building Web Apps with Spring 5 and Angular

By: Ajitesh Kumar Shukla

Overview of this book

Spring is the most popular application development framework being adopted by millions of developers around the world to create high performing, easily testable, reusable code. Its lightweight nature and extensibility helps you write robust and highly-scalable server-side web applications. Coupled with the power and efficiency of Angular, creating web applications has never been easier. If you want build end-to-end modern web application using Spring and Angular, then this book is for you. The book directly heads to show you how to create the backend with Spring, showing you how to configure the Spring MVC and handle Web requests. It will take you through the key aspects such as building REST API endpoints, using Hibernate, working with Junit 5 etc. Once you have secured and tested the backend, we will go ahead and start working on the front end with Angular. You will learn about fundamentals of Angular and Typescript and create an SPA using components, routing etc. Finally, you will see how to integrate both the applications with REST protocol and deploy the application using tools such as Jenkins and Docker.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

OAuth2 for authentication/authorization


In the preceding sections, you learnt about how to use Spring Security for authentication. In this section, you will learn about the basic fundamentals in relation to OAuth2-based authentication in relation to Spring Security and how to use it with your Angular app. The following topics will be covered:

  • Introduction to OAuth2-based authentication and authorization
  • Spring Security and OAuth2 authentication/authorization

OAuth2 is an authorization framework, which is used to enable third-party applications to get limited access to HTTP services such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and so on. OAuth-based authentication and authorization enables consumer applications and service providers to interact with each other in a secure manner. In order to access user's protected data from one or more service providers, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and so on, consumer or client applications such as web or mobile apps take the user through following workflow:

  1. The users...