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Building Applications with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2

By : James J. Ye
Book Image

Building Applications with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2

By: James J. Ye

Overview of this book

Building Applications with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2, with its practical approach, helps you become a full-stack web developer. As well as knowing how to write frontend and backend code, a developer has to tackle all problems encountered in the application development life cycle – starting from the simple idea of an application, to the UI and technical designs, and all the way to implementation, testing, production deployment, and monitoring. With the help of this book, you'll get to grips with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2 as you learn how to develop a web application. From the initial structuring to full deployment, you’ll be guided at every step of developing a web application from scratch with Vue.js 2 and Spring 5. You’ll learn how to create different components of your application as you progress through each chapter, followed by exploring different tools in these frameworks to expedite your development cycle. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a complete understanding of the key design patterns and best practices that underpin professional full-stack web development.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 10. Spring Security - Making Our Application Secure

Security is one of the fundamental requirements of a web application such as TaskAgile. We want to authenticate requests and authorize access to various resources, and we will want to prevent potential attacks that can be performed against our application. Spring Security, originally named Acegi Security, is the most popular security solution adopted in the Spring world. In this chapter, we will introduce the basics of web application security and various authentication processes, including Single Sign-On (SSO) and OAuth 2.0. We will also introduce Spring Security and explore its features, and then take a deep dive into its architecture to understand how it works. We will also implement the login page of the user module along the way.

In a nutshell, the following is what you will learn in this chapter:

  • How to secure a web application
  • How Spring Security works
  • How to set up Spring Security
  • Authenticating requests with Spring Security
  • Sending...