JWT Authentication with an Express Server Tutorial!

This tutorial will show you how to set up a basic Express server and protect your API routes with Json Web Tokens (JWT). JWTs are great when you need to protect your API routes from unauthorized users. This is an important concept to know if you want to be a developer. The first few minutes of the video will show you how to install and set up the Express Server and then we'll begin building the JWT functionality. This project will require that npx is installed on your system: https://www.npmjs.com/package/npx I am using Visual Studio Code as my editor: https://code.visualstudio.com/download Json Web Tokens: https://jwt.io/introduction/ I am also using Express with Typescript. Typescript allows you to write strongly typed Javascript so that you can write more secure code. You can read more about it here: https://www.typescriptlang.org/ In the video I go over interface declaration merging, you can view this concept more in-depth here: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/declaration-merging.html#merging-interfaces If you have any questions please comment and I'll help as much as I can. Subscribe and stay tuned for more content! Thanks for watching.