Category: Web

  • Python Logging

    Python Logging

    In this article I will show how to use the Logging library in Python. I will show how to configure the Logging library for many Handlers, Formatters and Filters.

  • Spring Security and Roles Authorization

    Spring Security and Roles Authorization

    In this article I will explain the difference between Authentication and Authorization. I will also explain how to implement the Authorization pattern with Spring Security. For that, I will use the @PreAuthorize annotation.

  • Jinja Templates

    Jinja Templates

    In this article, I show how a Flask backend can render and return Jinja templates. I will show how to use variables inside the Jinja templates, blocks and macros.

  • Python Pre-Commit

    Python Pre-Commit

    In this article I show how to configure pre-commit in a Python project to format and check the code. I will show 4 tools which will run automatically with the Git hooks.

  • The CSRF Protection with Spring Security

    The CSRF Protection with Spring Security

    In this article I will explain the CSRF attack, the Cross-Site Request Forgery attack. I will show how Spring Security can protect against this attack, in both a server side rendering server and with a separated frontend and the Cookie repository.

  • MongoDB with Spring Data

    MongoDB with Spring Data

    In this article I show how connect a Spring Boot application with MongoDB. I will show how to configure a Spring Boot application to be connected to a single noSQL database as MongoDB. And I will show how to use Spring Data to request a MongoDB database.

  • Unit Tests with Pytest

    Unit Tests with Pytest

    In this article I show how to write unit tests with Pytest. I show the parametrized tests, the conftest and the fixtures.

  • Mapping and Validating with Marshmallow

    Mapping and Validating with Marshmallow

    In this article I explain the 3-tier architecture. From that I explain the need to have a mapping with Marshmallow. I will use Marshmallow to map my database entities to JSON objects.

  • SQLAlchemy

    SQLAlchemy

    In this article I show how to configure SQLAlchemy in a Flask backend. I also show how to create entities which reflect some tables in a database. And show how some relationships are managed with SQLAlchemy as one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-many.

  • Basic Authentication & JWT

    Basic Authentication & JWT

    In this article I show how to secure a Flask backend with Basic Authentication and also with JWT. I will show the usage of the library flask-http-auth for the Basic Authentication and the token based Authentication. Then, I will add the library pyjwt to encode and decode a JWT.