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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 …
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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 …
Continue ReadingNginx 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 …
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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 …
Continue ReadingWe 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. …
Continue ReadingYou 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 …
Continue ReadingWe recently provisioned a new Debian VM and noticed that the sudo command wasn’t available. Our typical workflow includes the sudo command at the beginning of commands. The good news: you can install the sudo command on Debian and give your user the “sudo” permissions. {{outline}} Install the “sudo” …
Continue ReadingWhen starting out with JWT a shared secret is the simplest way to sign and verify tokens. While developing your application and progressing with the JWT usage, you’re arriving at JSON web keys and key sets. The previous tutorial shows how to use a JWKS API endpoint for authentication. …
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