Why you shouldn’t use access tokens in your front-end any more

And how to move authentication to the server-side

To obtain authorization for API-endpoints, many Single-Page Applications use OAuth2. Word has it, lately, you should not use access_tokens in the front-end any more. Why is that?

Read this article to learn:

• How a Single Page Application obtains authorization at the client-side
• How this may be a risk
• What the alternative is