Approaches to make Node js-Express Rest api from mysql secure/Authenticate

Question

I have used Express nodejs to Create Rest API from Mysql which will be invoked by an front end javascript application. As the Rest service that are created is open I need some approach to authenticate such as passing username/token

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

siddhant sankhe · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-04 13:18:30Z

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You Could use jwt tokens for authentication.

You can look at this example on scotch.io jwt auth

hope this will help you.

answered Jul 4, 2018 at 13:18

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Vikram Srinivasan Over a year ago

thanks for the response the article suggests the authentication with backend as mongo but as a beginner and with mysql as a backend for me could you share some links with mysql with express authentication

siddhant sankhe Over a year ago

please take look at this vivavivugeek.blogspot.com/2016/09/…

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