About the talk:

Learn how to use JWT and Auth0 to protect serverless APIs.

David will walk you through using React, AWS Lambda, custom authorizers, and Auth0 JWTs to create a full stack react + serverless app.

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About the Frontend

• React application based on create react app
• Routing via react router 4
• State management via redux
• Talks to AWS API Gateway via axios
• User auth via Auth0
• Hosted on Netlify

About the Backend

• Node backend running in AWS Lambda Functions
• Using AWS DynamoDB noSQL database
• User Authorization handled via API Gateway Custom Authorizer Functions
• Made possible with the serverless framework