This post is the second in a two part series on React JS. The first post covered design decisions to make before starting a project, and this post provides tips for building and deploying React web applications in Microsoft Azure with Azure Pipelines.
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Design decisions to make before starting a new React JS project
This post is the first in a two part series on React JS. Since there are already tons of great docs and training material for React, the focus of these posts is to highlight some common design decisions and Azure ecosystem build/deploy problems that folks new to React typically run into.
This particular post focuses on the key decisions you should make before you start writing any code.
Edit: Part 2 now is available here.
Continue readingHow to setup the Azure AD implicit grant flow with React, ASP.NET Core, and RBAC roles
The OAuth 2.0 implicit grant flow is great way to handle authentication between a client JavaScript single page web app (SPA) and a web API. For example: a React or Angular web app that needs to authenticate users and then have those users call an authorized ASP.NET Core Web API.
Azure AD and the Microsoft identity platform have well established patterns and support for this workflow. In this blog post I will break down an end-to-end example that includes enabling this flow for AAD users with the following technologies: an Azure AD App configured with role-based access control (RBAC) claims, client side code leveraging React and ADAL.js, and server side code leveraging ASP.NET Core.
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