Topics include:

• What JSON Web Tokens are and how to use them to authenticate users
• Strategies for invalidating stateless API tokens
• Using cookie and session authentication
• Using authentication-as-a-service solutions like Auth0
• Proxying requests to your API to simplify CORS issues
• Protecting against XSS attacks

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Links:

• JSON Web Tokens
• Securing Angular Applications, Ryan's book
• Security Headers scanning tool
• "I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. Here’s how."
• https://auth0.com/
• "CORS is bad for performance" Twitter thread