Authenticating Microservices with JWT and Web Components

Hey everyone! Authenticating users across multiple microservices and applications is a huge challenge. Wouldn't it be amazing if would could drop a single web component on the page and be instantly authenticated? Let's see if we can use JWT Tokens along with Web Components to create single authentication component to rule them all. 00:00 - Introduction 00:30 - Problems Going from Monolith to Microservices 01:22 - JWT Authentication Overview 01:40 - JWT: Refresh Tokens 02:11 - JWT: Access Tokens 03:02 - JWT: Cookie vs Local Storage 04:18 - Demo Application Overview 05:21 - Auth Web Component 06:40 - Adding the Auth Component to the Application 07:23 - Inspecting the Access Token 07:52 - Recap Links: https://github.com/heyMP/hax-camp-auth-demo https://jwt.io/