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James Q Quick · 2020-10-28T19:25:51.000Z

Adding authentication in your Node.js applications can be a daunting task. Even if you're using Passport.js to do some of the heavy lifting, it's still tricky to incorporate. In this article, let's see how to use the express-openid-connect library to...

Great post James, can you please suggest any good Blog post to refer for Developing REST api which uses Auth0 for authentication

Hello James Q Quick thanks for this article, there’s one scenario I’d actually want to implement this technique for but I’m not sure how.

If the frontend codebase was separate from the backend, how do I handle this authentication? Is it by choosing the SPA option on Auth0, what of the backend?

You could setup the frontend any way you want. You could have it be completely separate or you could serve the frontend from the node server. If you were building a SPA, you could either use the SPA library for authentication or set up auth the way it is in this article. If you set it up this way, your login button would just send the user to the login route, for example. That make sense?

Timely read for where I am right now, thanks! Do you have any exp. with Nest.js, which is extend from Express.

Glad this helped! I've never actually used nest.js myself, but maybe I should :)

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