Odyssey / Side Quest: Authentication & Authorization
Side Quest: Authentication & Authorization
What you'll learn
Introduction
4m
Authentication: Identifying users
5m
Authorization: Checking permissions
5m
Auth in Apollo Studio
2m
Course description
We'll look at an example of how to implement authentication and authorization in a GraphQL server. We'll use the HTTP Authorization request header to log in users, and we'll use field-level authorization to control user permissions to parts of the schema.
Prerequisites
JavaScript, Odyssey Lift-off series (or comfortable with the basics of Apollo Server)