You’re naturally in the needs of handy utilities when working with JavaScript handling arrays. Modern JavaScript frameworks —especially the frontend frameworks— abstract most of the DOM interaction. You’re focusing on the actual logic and implement the data handling. When implementing the logic, a handy utility related to JavaScript …

Implementing signatures and encryption for JSON web tokens can be complex due to the cryptographic handling. Up to this point in this tutorial series, you implemented both features on top of existing libraries. A downside of the previous tutorials: when introducing encrypted tokens, you removed the signature of a JWT. …

Axios provides a clean promise-based API to interact with HTTP endpoints. It supports a variety of formats and use-cases. A previous tutorial showed you how to download files with Axios in Node.js. This tutorial walks you through the process of adding a progress bar when downloading files with Axios …

Most of the JWT tutorials in the Internet show you how to work with signed tokens. In the previous tutorial, you changed your code to create encrypted JWTs. This switch from signed to encrypted JWTs requires changes to your user authentication as well. This is what you’ll implement in …

Nginx is a powerful reverse proxy routing your domains from the Internet to your applications. This tutorial shows you how to serve a static HTML page with nginx. It walks you through the required paths, files, and configurations. {{outline}} Serve Static HTML Pages with nginx We created a snake browser …

We already touched the encryption aspect in the previous JWT tutorial on encrypting the JWT payload in “a simple way”. The linked tutorial showed you how to encrypt input data and put the encrypted data into the payload of a signed JWT. Here, you’ll create a fully encrypted JWT …

We recently installed the (to this time) newest nginx version 1.17 on a new machine. The created configurations in sites-available were symlinked to sites-enabled, but nginx wasn’t serving any of the domains. The crux here, nginx used the different directory conf.d to store a catch-all default configuration. …

You may read the “JOSE” keyword when searching the Internet for details on JSON web tokens. Well, you’re likely to find “JOSE” in references to the JWT specification and not in actionable tutorials. What is JOSE in combination with JWT? That’s a good question! JWT defines the token …