Authentication & Authorization Architecture in the MEAN Stack

A talk by Yuri Takhteyev, CTO at Rangle.io

In this talk from FITC’s Spotlight MEAN Stack event in March 2014, Rangle.io’s CTO, Yuri Takhteyev, discusses authentication and authorization in the MEAN Stack. Topics include architecture and best practices for determining client and server responsibilities.

Topics Covered

Yuri discusses the challenges of authentication and authorization in the MEAN stack. Topics include architecture, best practices for determining client and server responsibilities, and the importance of sharing authorization context with the client logic in order to build an effective user experience. Angular and Node code samples are be used to illustrate.

Speaker's Bio

Yuri Takhteyev is the CTO at Rangle.io and a former faculty member at the University of Toronto. His interests span software architecture and global software development culture. Yuri’s book on software development in Brazil (codingplaces.net) was published by the MIT Press in 2012. His other work has appeared in academic journals and in popular publications such as foreignaffairs.com. To hear more from Nick, follow him on Twitter at @qaramazov.