MERN Stack Authentication with JWT Access, Refresh Tokens, Cookies

Web Dev Roadmap for Beginners (Free!): https://bit.ly/DaveGrayWebDevRoadmap Learn MERN Stack Authentication and Authorization with JWT Access & Refresh Tokens and secure cookies. Create auth routes and an auth controller for a REST API that will handle authentication and issue JWT tokens for valid users. 💖 Support me on Patreon ➜ https://patreon.com/davegray ⭐ Become a full-stack web dev with Zero To Mastery Courses: - Advanced React & Redux: https://bit.ly/AdvReactDev - The Complete Node.js Developer: https://bit.ly/CompleteNodeJS - Jr to Senior Web Dev Roadmap: https://bit.ly/WebDevRoadmap-JrtoSr 🚩 Subscribe ➜ https://bit.ly/3nGHmNn 📬 Course Updates ➜ https://courses.davegray.codes/ 🚀 Discord ➜ https://discord.gg/neKghyefqh ☕ Buy Me A Coffee ➜ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/davegray 👇 Follow Me On Social Media: Github: https://github.com/gitdagray Twitter: https://twitter.com/yesdavidgray LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidagray/ 🔗 All Resources for this MERN Stack Project: https://github.com/gitdagray/mern_stack_course 🔗 Playlist for this MERN Stack Project Series: https://bit.ly/3Sn4EaI MERN Stack Authentication with JWT Access, Refresh Tokens, Cookies (00:00) Intro (00:09) Welcome (00:22) Quick lessons recap (00:55) Authentication vs Authorization (01:49) Starter Code (02:12) Add auth routes to server (02:42) Auth routes router (04:26) Rate limiting middleware (07:47) Auth controller (10:07) Adding controller methods to auth routes (11:01) Understanding the JWT auth process (13:13) Create token secrets with Node.js (15:34) login method in auth controller (20:13) refresh method in auth controller (22:31) logout method in auth controller (23:29) Create middleware to verify JWTs (26:51) Apply verifyJWT middleware to routes (28:44) Test the login endpoint with Postman (31:23) Test the refresh endpoint with Postman (32:33) Test the logout endpoint with Postman (33:15) Test the verifyJWT middleware with Postman 📚 Suggested Pre-requisites for this MERN course: 🔗 Node.js for Beginners full course: https://youtu.be/f2EqECiTBL8 🔗 React JS for Beginners full course: https://youtu.be/RVFAyFWO4go 🔗 Redux Toolkit for Beginners full course: https://youtu.be/NqzdVN2tyvQ 🔗 React Login Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0Zuz27SZ-6PRCpm9clX0WiBEMB70FWwd 📚 Tutorial References: 🔗 Express Rate Limiter: https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-rate-limiter 🔗 jsonwebtoken: https://www.npmjs.com/package/jsonwebtoken Was this MERN Stack Authentication tutorial helpful? If so, please share. Let me know your thoughts in the comments. #mern #stack #authentication