Authentication & Authorization Patterns
By the end of this course, learners should be able to explain Sessions, JWT, OAuth, RBAC, and secure password flows every backend engineer must ship.
Sessions, JWT, OAuth, RBAC, and secure password flows every backend engineer must ship.
Skills you will develop
Authentication and sessions
Skills you’ll develop
Course completion demonstrates these skills. Verification requires assessment or reviewed challenge work.
What you will build and prove
- Practice: Practice: Lesson 2: Ship a secure authenticated API feature
- Quiz: Lesson 2: Ship a secure authenticated API feature check (pass 70%)
- Final assessment: Authentication & Authorization Patterns — course assessment (pass 70%)
Course journey
How this free course is structured — watch, practise, and progress module by module.
- Week 1: Foundations
- Week 2: Core Concepts
- Week 3: Applied Patterns
- Week 4: Ship Your Project
Practice
1 optional practice exercise — apply what you learned. Practice is not required to complete the course.
Assessment
- Lesson 2: Ship a secure authenticated API feature check · pass mark 70%
- Authentication & Authorization Patterns — course assessment · pass mark 70%
Prove
Course completion means finishing required lessons , and the course assessment . That grants a certificate of completion — not a professional certification. Optional practice does not block completion.
Curriculum
Week 1: Week 1: Foundations
- Lesson 1: Set up your backend development environment Preview 14min
- Lesson 2: Project structure for APIs and services 15min
- Lesson 3: Configure databases and environment secrets 16min
Week 2: Week 2: Core Concepts
- Lesson 1: Design RESTful endpoints and status codes 16min
- Lesson 2: Validate input and shape API responses 17min
- Lesson 3: Model data with migrations and relations 18min
Week 3: Week 3: Applied Patterns
- Lesson 1: Backend engineering fundamentals 18min
- Lesson 2: Ship a secure authenticated API feature 19min
- Lesson 3: Work with databases, caches, and queues 20min
Week 4: Week 4: Ship Your Project
- Lesson 1: Backend engineering fundamentals 20min
- Lesson 2: Ship a secure authenticated API feature Practice 21min
- Lesson 3: Work with databases, caches, and queues 22min
Free to enroll — no purchase required.
Instructor: Africoders
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