reading-notes

API Integration

Review, Research, and Discussion

1. How do bearer tokens work?
   1. bearer tokens give access to a site to user, albiet rescrited by the role the token has been assigned.
2. Describe express middleware
   1. functions that are used to inbetween request and response.
3. What is a JWT?
   1. JSON Web Token - is a proposed Internet standard for creating data with optional signature and/or optional encryption whose payload holds JSON that asserts some number of claims.

Vocab

1. role based access control
   • based on the role allocated to the user, they are given different functionality around the site.
2. http cookies
   • small blocks of data created by a web server while a user is browsing a website and placed on the user’s computer.