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One of the biggest challenges of adding OAuth 2.0 support to legacy applications is a lack of support in the underlying framework. Maybe it's homegrown, or maybe it's just old? Either way, migrating away from an old form-based login doesn't need to be so painful. In this post, I'll walk…
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Angular is a web framework for building mobile and desktop applications. Its first version, AngularJS, was one of the first JavaScript MVC frameworks to dominate the web landscape. Developers loved it, and it rose to popularity in the early 2010s. AngularJS 1.0 was released on June 14, 2014. Angular 9…
Read more about Build a CRUD App with Angular 9 and Spring Boot 2.2
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MongoDB is a document database. Instead of storing data in tables and rows, you store documents in a structure very similar to objects in the memory of your application. The schema is flexible and dynamic. You don't need to define all fields upfront. Some MongoDB tutorials define model classes in…
Read more about Use MongoDB in Your C# ASP.NET Apps
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REST is one of the most used architectural styles when it comes to developing web services. In Java, we have the JAX-RS specification that defines how to create a RESTful application. To show the power of the spec, Jersey, the reference implementation of JAX-RS was created. Building JAX-RS endpoints only…
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Docker enables you to deploy a server environment in containers. A container is a standardized unit of software that assembles code, runtime, dependencies, settings, and initialization in a single package that you can run reliably from one computing environment to another. Deploying your app as a Docker container is not…
Read more about Add Docker to Your Spring Boot Application
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This tutorial leverages two technologies that are commonly used to build web services: MongoDB and Java (we'll actually use Spring Boot). MongoDB is a NoSQL database, which is a generic term for any non-relational databases and differentiates them from relational databases. Relational databases, such as SQL, MySQL, Postgres, etc..., store…
Read more about Build a CRUD API with Java and MongoDB
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OpenID Connect (OIDC) and OAuth 2.0 are already recognized as powerful tools for incorporating authentication and authorization into modern web applications.
Read more about Use Okta Token Hooks to Supercharge OpenID Connect
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Writing quality code takes practice. To write better code, you need to know what should improve. Code quality and what makes code easy to read are very subjective; ask five different developers, you will get six different answers. For this post, I'll avoid most of the subjective and focus on…
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For the last seven years or so I've been building developer tools to help make user authentication and authorization simpler and more secure. When I'm not building tools to help secure web applications, I'm often writing articles, creating videos, and educating developers on web security best practices.
Read more about Multi-Factor Authentication Sucks
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Everyone has their favorite framework, and most developers aren't shy about sharing those opinions. I guarantee you right now two developers are arguing about their favorite frameworks. Personally, I've been using JavaScript frameworks since JQuery was introduced. I've written applications for clients using Knockout.js, Angular 1+, React (since before v15),…
Read more about Build Components in JavaScript Without a Framework
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When you are developing web applications with React, you know that writing the JavaScript code is only half of the story. The other half is implementing the design using style sheets. When your application becomes larger, using plain CSS style sheets can become tedious and unmaintainable. Sass is one of…
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Hello, fellow developers.
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