Azure AD authentication in angular using MSAL angular v2 library

In previous projects, I use Oidc-client-js to authenticate users against azure AD. Oidc-client-js is a great library but is no longer maintained by the main author. Because of this, I have switched to MSAL angular v2 in my current project. Microsoft provides good documentation and sample projects to help developers to integrate the library into their project. I am able to follow the sample project to get authentication working in my angular application, albeit a few hiccups along the way. In this post, I share some of the issues I ran into and how I structure the codes for authentication.

Building or leveraging an OIDC provider to protect web applications.

In this post, I write about OpenID and OAuth2 providers, and what can you use to build or leverage them to protect your web applications.

How can you trust a JWT to be authentic?

In this post, I am going to share a few things I have learned about JWT token. Specifically, I am going to go over the structure of a JWT and how you can trust the information in the token to be authentic by validating the signature.

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