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Injecting auth-headers into angular.js application using http.config vz using interceptors.

We have been building a client app in Angular.js and decided on using token auth with JWTs, pretty much the normal choice. We got everything set up on the server side and am receiving the token on the client side, but now we just need to send the token

How to enable support for CORS with custom headers like authentication in Rails

I was building a client side application for my API that I built using Rails/Grape. So in order to access the resources using the API from the client application the first thing that I need to do was to enable CORS support in the API. Enabling CORS using rack-cors

Active Model Serializer vz Jbuilder vz Rabl vz Grape-entity for rendering JSON

When architecting an API only application one the of the most important points of discussion among the team members is which framework to use ? * Should we be using Rails and render JSON ? * Should we be using Grape ? * Should we be using Rails-API ? Also, how are we gonna format the JSON

Error handling with Grape, Rails and ActiveRecord CanCan

I have been working on a project developing the backend API using Rails and Grape. One fine morning I pulled the latest code from the git repo that my colleague wrote, and was going to review the code. As usual, the first thing I did was to run the Integrations

Using helper methods and helper modules in Rails Grape to keep the code DRY

I was working with a Grape API and got into a situation where I was kind of reimplementing some methods on more than one mounted API. So naturally, I wanted to refactor the code, keep it DRY and extract it as helper methods and eventually into helper module. So here

JSON Web Tokens explained and how to use JWT in authentication with APIs

Introduction Over the last few years web application development has seen drastic changes, with the front-end frameworks coming to the scene, the popularity of hybrid applications, mobile first strategy, rising demand for SPAs, Microservices etc. In older times, both the frontend and the backend would be in a single place,

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