Implementing JWT Based Authentication in Spring Boot (Using Spring Security)

In this post, we will learn how JWT(JSON Web Token) based authentication works, and how to build a Spring Boot application in Java to implement it using the Spring Security library library. If you already know how JWT works, and just want to see the implementation, you can skip ahead, or see the source code on Github The JSON web token (JWT) allows you to authenticate your users in a stateless manner, without actually storing any information about them on the system itself (as opposed to session based authentication)....

 · Soham Kamani