OAuth 2.0: The Complete Guide

Covering OAuth 2.0 Workflows, Endpoints, Scopes, Tokens: JWTs and API Security. Real-life examples included!

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What You Will Learn!

Deep Understanding of the OAuth 2.0 Protocol
Deep dive into Tokens, their Types and Lifetime
How is OAuth actually working
OAuth Grant Types
What is JWT and its Structure
Use OAuth to Protect your APIs
OAuth Endpoints
OAuth Scopes
Hand-on practice examples to access Public APIs using OAuth 2.0
Why Social and Internet Applications give us the option to sign up using other applications

Description

OAuth 2.0 has become the web-industry standard protocol for providing secure access to web APIs, allowing applications to access users' data without compromising security and actually passing their password around. Companies around the world add OAuth to their APIs to enable secure access from their own mobile apps and third-party IoT devices and even access to banking APIs. So if you think about the big names in the technology industry, you can pretty much bet they have OAuth implemented.

With that being said, it is pretty obvious that this skill will improve by a mile your software developer abilities and will make you much more valuable in the work field.

If you're building an API, you'll learn in this tutorial the differences and tradeoffs between different access token formats, including JWT, how to choose an appropriate access token lifetime, and how to design scopes to protect various parts of your APIs.

By the end of this course, you’ll understand:

The problems OAuth was created to solve
The actual types of workflows regarding OAuth detailed in steps
The basics of OAuth 2.0 including what it is, how it is used, and what it is used for.
OAuth 2.0 Endpoints that you can call
OAuth 2.0 Terminology and key components
Deep dive into tokens and their types
JWT and its structure and also how they work

So, if all of this sounds interesting, I look forward to seeing you guys in the lectures! :)