Integrating Spring Boot and React With Spring Security: Basic and JWT Authentication

This guide helps you setup Spring Security with Basic and JWT authentication with a full stack application using React as a frontend framework and Spring Boot as the backend REST API. We will be using JavaScript as the frontend language and Java as the backend language.

You Will Learn

  • How to use React as a Frontend Framework
  • How to use Spring to create Backend REST Service API
  • How to setup Basic Authentication with Spring Boot
  • How to use Spring Security with Spring Boot
  • How to use JWT Security with Spring Boot
  • How to verify Basic Authentication at user login calling a REST API with React
  • How to make secured REST API calls from React frontend
  • How to use sessionStorage to track tokens in the React frontend application

10-Step Reference Courses

Step 0: Get an Overview of the Full Stack Application

Understanding Basic Features of the Application

The following screenshot shows the application we would like to build: