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How to setup spring security with react and spring boot?


Asked by Lee Pittman on Dec 12, 2021 Spring



This guide helps you setup Spring Security with Basic and JWT authentication with a full stack application using React as 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. How do you use React as a Frontend Framework?
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With React, we can build complex web applications with ease. In this article, we're going to make Spring Security work together with a React Login page. We'll take advantage of the existing Spring Security configurations of previous examples. So we'll build on top of a previous article about creating a Form Login with Spring Security.
Additionally, Make sure Spring Boot is running, then run yarn start in your app directory. You should see the list of default groups. You might have to scroll down to see this list. React is all about components, and you don’t want to render everything in your main App, so create app/src/GroupList.js and populate it with the following JavaScript.
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You do that by configuring Spring Security in the application. If Spring Security is on the classpath, Spring Boot automatically secures all HTTP endpoints with “basic” authentication. However, you can further customize the security settings. The first thing you need to do is add Spring Security to the classpath.
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When you launch the React app in the browser, it will appear as shown below: All that you need to do is to add Spring Boot Starter Security to your pom.xml You would see that the Basic Authentication is now enabled. If you restart the backend application, you would see the basic authentication password is printed into the console