Tag: rest
- GraphQL authentication and authorization (05 Jan 2022)
In this second post regarding GraphQL I would like to show how to manage authentication and authorization in GraphQL API. Authentication and authorization are often mixed each other but these concepts are responsible for different processes. The former determine user identity (whether user is logged in or 'recognized' by a system), while the latter refers to whether an authenticated user has access to a given resource. So usually authentication stage precede authorization one. - GraphQL API and REST API. Mirror implementations in Python (22 Dec 2021)
REST is probably the most popular way to expose your application to the external world (e.g. as a backend for frontend or to establish communication protocol with other application / service). However, GraphQL is now getting more and more popular, and have became a strong competitor for REST.