Spring Boot Token based Authentication with Spring Security & JWT

Spring Boot Token based Authentication with Spring Security & JWT

In this tutorial, we’re gonna build a Spring Boot Application that supports Token based Authentication with JWT. You’ll know:

• Appropriate Flow for User Signup & User Login with JWT Authentication
• Spring Boot Application Architecture with Spring Security
• How to configure Spring Security to work with JWT
• How to define Data Models and association for Authentication and Authorization
• Way to use Spring Data JPA to interact with PostgreSQL/MySQL Database
• Lots of interesting things ahead, let’s explore together.

– Related Post: Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA – Building Rest CRUD API example

– More Practice:

• Spring Boot JWT Authentication with Spring Security and MongoDB
• CRUD GraphQL APIs example with Spring Boot, MySQL & Spring JPA
• Spring Boot Rest XML example – Web service with XML Response

– Fullstack:

• Spring Boot + Vuejs: JWT Authentication Example
• Spring Boot + Angular 8: JWT Authentication Example
• Angular 8 + Spring Boot: File upload example
• Spring Boot + React.js: JWT Authentication example

Deployment: Deploy Spring Boot App on AWS – Elastic Beanstalk

Conclusion

Congratulation!

Today we’ve learned so many interesting things about Spring Security and JWT Token based Authentication in just a Spring Boot example.
Despite we wrote a lot of code, I hope you will understand the overall architecture of the application, and apply it in your project at ease.

You can also know how to deploy Spring Boot App on AWS (for free) with this tutorial.

Happy learning! See you again.

Further Reading

• Spring Security Reference
• In-depth Introduction to JWT-JSON Web Token
• Spring Boot Pagination & Filter example | Spring JPA, Pageable

Source Code

You can find the complete source code for this tutorial on Github.