Our journey of exploring authentication with Ktor has come to an end. Thanks to all of you who have followed along through this tutorial series. Over the past two months and across ten comprehensive posts, we’ve covered a wide array of techniques and best practices to secure Ktor applications effectively. For those who wish to…
Welcome to the first post on the subject of authentication with Ktor. As developers, we appreciate the importance of security, but integrating it smoothly within our backend services can sometimes seem like a daunting task. However, when working with Kotlin and Ktor, the task becomes much more approachable due to concise syntax and flexibility. This series aims to delve into the diverse authentication mechanisms. We will find our way through Basic Auth, Form Auth, to more complex ones like JWT and OAuth. Whether you’re new to Ktor or looking to broaden your horizons, this series will offer practical, hands-on experiences to help you effectively bring security to your backend applications.
In the last episode we established a simple form-based authentication with hardcoded credentials. Today, we take it step further and load user details from a database. Project Setup If you are new to this series on Spring Security and WebFlux, check my initial blog post to see how to start from scratch. Let’s add a…
This post looks at a standard form-based authentication and how it applies to Spring WebFlux. Follow along a complete working example and tweak the source code to your own liking. Project Setup The stack: Spring Boot Spring Security Kotlin + Gradle Java 11 Spring Boot allows you to easily build upon established libraries and provides…