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📣 firatcan

How to understand Authorization on Web and Mobile Apps?


Hey everyone,

My name is Firat, and I just start leading a really technical (an Authorization API, simply Stripe for Authorization)

And I don't have really technical background. I'm trying to talk as many technical person as possible, and understand the problem.

But still I feel incompetent sometimes, so what would be the single best advice you'd give to me? (As a person who are discovering the problem space and understand Authorizations in web and mobile applications)

  👤 readonthegoapp Accepted Answer ✓
i would pay for some platform with a ton of auth material -- i actually love linkedin learning. i think you can get a free 7-day trial -- even that will be useful if that is all you can afford.

https://www.linkedin.com/learning/search?keywords=authentica...

i'm occasionally interested to re/learn something and will jump on there to do it.

e.g. i finally got introduced in a real way to spark/pyspark/jupyter/etc. over the past couple of days thanks to various courses on there.

if it's easy you can just slam thru the videos with the speed feature, or i use the 'video speed controller' chrome addon.

for your case, i would also start building a 'hello, world' app and walk thru various authorization scenarios -- build them out. you _can_ learn this stuff without building something, but will be much more difficult.

i would do courses or videos (one video from a course) on the following topics to start:

  - http
  - curl
  - chrome developer tools
  - postman/curl/wget/vscode rest client extension
  - authentication and authorization
  - api authentication
  - spa authentication (single page app)
ps i think you left a word off the end of your second sentence.