Proper way for user authentication with angularjs and flask

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I'm currently working my way through Web development with flask. I want to build a webapp with flask as backend and angular.js at the frontend. The Json part is straight forward, and my first steps work out well. But now I got stuck with User Authentication. I read a lot but found out, that WTFForms works not as well with angular (without the CSFR Token), so i can not use something like flask-security.

What is a proper way or maybe the best pratice for implementing User authentication with Angular und Flask? (Maybe someone knows a good example app I can learn from by example)

Take a look in this repository. github.com/weinbergdavid/python-flask-security — David Weinberg
– David Weinberg, Commented Nov 16, 2016 at 17:23

Miguel Grinberg · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-07 19:01:53Z

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I have written several tutorials on RESTful APIs with Flask, all with examples that are ready to use:

http://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/category/REST

The tutorials are:

Designing a RESTful API with Python and Flask

This is a simple RESTful API written in Flask, with authentication.
Writing a Javascript REST client

In this one I implement a Javascript client for the API built in the first tutorial. Here you can see how the client authenticates. I used Knockout instead of Angular for the client, but the principles are the same.
Designing a RESTful API using Flask-RESTful

This one is another way to write the server, using the Flask-RESTful extension to simplify some tasks.
RESTful Authentication with Flask

This is a tutorial specifically dedicated to authentication.

I hope they are useful.

answered Feb 7, 2014 at 19:01

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w ian douglas Over a year ago

+1 to Miguel and his blog, thanks for the huge effort you put in on Flask knowledge sharing.

Vukasin Over a year ago

I'll go with token based auth - Miguel did great job on his blog.

NMO · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-24 12:35:18Z

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You can use flask-security together with Angular. You can even get CSRF support. I simply disabled WTFForms support and used the Flask backend only as REST API. I wrote a tutorial how to do this here. Source code is also available.

answered Aug 24, 2020 at 12:35

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