Spring Boot, MongoDB: JWT Authentication with Spring Security

Spring Boot, MongoDB: JWT Authentication with Spring Security

This tutorial helps you build a Spring Boot Authentication (Login & Registration) & role-based Authorization example with JWT, Spring Security and Spring Data MongoDB. 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 MongoDB to interact with MongoDB Database
  More Practice:
  – Spring Boot JWT Authentication with Spring Security, Spring Data JPA & MySQL/PostgreSQL
  – Spring Boot + GraphQL + MongoDB example with Spring Data & graphql-java
  – Spring Boot with MongoDB CRUD example using Spring Data

Conclusion

Oh Yeah! Today we’ve learned many things about Spring Security and JWT Token based Authentication in a Spring Boot MongoDB login & registration example (with Authorization).

This app can be used as a back-end that works well with these front-end applications (I’ve tested all of them):

• Angular 8 JWT Authentication with HttpInterceptor and Router
• Vue.js JWT Authentication with Vuex and Vue Router
• React JWT Authentication (without Redux) example

Further Reading

• In-depth Introduction to JWT-JSON Web Token
• Spring Security Reference
• Spring Data MongoDB – Reference Documentation
• Spring Boot + Vuejs: Authentication with JWT & Spring Security Example

Source Code

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