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Recreating FB Marketplace for Students - UVic SENG499 Capstone Project
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Add JWT validation at Proxy layer #135

Open MNThomson opened 3 weeks ago

MNThomson commented 3 weeks ago

Feature Description

Add the jwt-validation-middleware to the proxy to all api routes except for /api/user/create.

blocked by: #12

Problem You're Trying to Solve

Authentication is hard and each service implementing it properly is also scary. At the proxy layer, we can also enforce signed/non-expired JWTs as an additional layer of protection