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November 9, 2017 — When a user of your application has forgotten their password, it can and should be reset securely. To accomplish a secure password reset, I will demonstrate how to use JSON Web Tokens (JWT) to generate a URL-safe token. The JWT contains encoded information about the user and a signature that, when decoded, is validated to ensure that the token has not been tampered with. Read more…

May 19, 2017 — As a front-end developer, for each and every application I work on, I need to decide how to manage the data. The problem can be broken down into the following three subproblems: Fetch data from the back end, store it somewhere locally in the front-end application, retrieve the data from the local store and format it as required by the particular view or screen. Read more…

May 2, 2017 — OAuth2 makes it easy for users to log into your app, to not have to remember a password for every website, and to trust your security. OAuth2 dominates the industry as there is no other security protocol that comes close to the adoption of OAuth2. Read more…