Akanksha Bhasin 7 min read
Python syntax and the flexibility of the Flask microframework make it a popular choice for quickly building web applications. While Flask provides the essentials to get you started, you'll need to tackle two critical pieces yourself: secure user authentication and authorization for your backend services. After all, how do you…
Read moreEvery web application needs authentication, but building it yourself is risky and time-consuming. Instead of starting from scratch, you can integrate Okta to manage user identity and pair Passport with the openid-client library in Express to simplify and secure the login flow. In this tutorial, you'll build a secure, role-based…
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Aaron Parecki 1 min read
Why do we need PKCE in OAuth? How does PKCE work? What's the difference between the front channel and back channel? Can SPAs even use a back channel?
Read moreReact Native is a mobile app development framework that allows you to use React to build native iOS and Android mobile apps. Instead of using a web view and rendering HTML and JavaScript, it converts React components to native platform components. This means you can use React Native in your…
Read moreImagine two levers that are inversely connected. That is, as one goes up, the other goes down. One lever is User Experience and the other is Security. It's not a perfect analogy, but most developers can attest that as user experience goes up, security goes down.
Read moreYou may have heard some buzz recently about the OAuth 2.0 Implicit flow. The OAuth Working Group has published some new guidance around the Implicit flow and JavaScript-based apps, specifically that the Implicit flow should no longer be used. In this post we'll look at what's changing with the Implicit…
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