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Full Stack Development with Spring Boot 3 and React
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In Chapter 5, Securing Your Backend, we created JWT authentication and allowed everyone access to the /login
endpoint without authentication. Now, on the frontend login page, we have to send a POST
request to the /login
endpoint using user credentials to get a token. After that, the token will be included in all requests that we send to the backend, as demonstrated in the following figure:
Figure 16.2: Secured application
With this knowledge, we will start to implement login functionality on our frontend. We will implement the login page where the user enters credentials, and then we will send a login request to get a token from the server. We will use the stored token in the requests that we send to the server.
Let’s first create a login component that asks for credentials from the user to get a token from the backend:
Login.tsx
in the components
folder. Now, the file...