Creating the Authentication Middleware File
Understand how to create and implement authentication middleware in Go that validates user tokens passed in headers. This lesson guides you through building secure API endpoints by ensuring users are authenticated before accessing protected routes.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
Middleware
Middleware is software that allows two or more applications in a distributed system to communicate in one or more ways. Essentially, the middleware in the system allows the controllers and routes to communicate. For example, in order for the users to successfully access the content of the app, they must log in first. To ensure that whoever is attempting to access the data is, in fact, a user, we require some form of identification. Most of the ...