Build Secure APIs with Auth0 and Postman

Easily Add Authentication To Your APIs And Learn How To Test Them

Created byJoel Lord

Last updated 12/2018

English

What you'll learn

Build a secure API and test it with Postman

Course content

4 sections • 8 lectures • 30m total length

Introduction2:13

Build a NodeJs API5:12
In this course, you will see how to build a NodeJs API with Express. If you already know how to use Express, you would still benefit from watching this lesson as the code built here is used in the next lessons.
Test Your API With Postman3:36
Learn how to use collections in Postman to test you various endpoints in the Express server that was built in the previous lesson.
Create And Configure Your Auth0 Application3:46
In this lesson, you will learn how to configure Auth0 to protect an API.
Secure Your API With JWTs4:40
Using the API built in lesson 1 and the configuration created in lesson 3, you will learn how to protect a route on your API. This route will now require a valid JWT in order to provide you with the content that was previously publicly available.
Test Your Secured Route With Postman7:43
Learn how to authenticate with Auth0 in order to obtain valid JWTs that can be used with the private route you've created in lesson 4.

Requirements

You should have basic knowledge of Javascript and NodeJs

Description

In this course, the students will learn how to build a basic API using express and NodeJs. Then, they will see how to test it using Postman. Finally, they will learn how to secure a route on their API using Auth0 and how to test it using an OAuth 2.0 authentication mechanism.

Who this course is for:

A Javascript back-end developer that wants to protect some routes on his Express server

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Introduction1 lecture • 2min

Build Secure APIs5 lectures • 25min

Bonus Section: Extra Postman Features1 lecture • 3min

Outro1 lecture • 1min

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