Nowadays, REST APIs are pretty much everywhere, so it's nice to know how to create one, in this case, with Java and Spring, using SpringBoot and SpringMVC. We will cover the needed steps, from the maven dependencies to the controller creation and view ussage, and we will check if our rest API works with our web browser.
We will cover the needed steps to create a Springboot Rest API application, integrated with an OAuth2 service: Keycloak. This will allow us to authenticate with it and protect our application from unauthorised access. Also, we will be able to store all our users and roles in Keycloak and our…
Keycloak is an Open Source user management tool that has implemented several authentication methods such as OpenID and OAuth2. It acts as a user database/active directory. It's pretty useful to build SSO (Single Sing-On) APIs. This is the first of a series of post about Keycloak.
I've been programing an API for content creators (which you can find on github), that extracts some usefull information from diverse APIs (like Twitch, RIOT, etc...). This API is programed with JavaScript, and running on a NodeJS server. I wanted to host it by myself, so I've decided to run throught all the steps, software and tools I've used to achieve it.