Server side rendering (SSR) is a technique for rendering HTML with meta tags and data when the page first loads. For React apps, the HTML is usually an empty div tag. The browser downloads the JavaScript bundle and populates the div tag with HTML. Google, the most popular search engine, crawls the content after running JavaScript. So, we may think that this is not a problem.…

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I am a fan of Auth0. More for business reasons. They have taken Authentication seriously and made it into a trendy business. Kudos to the team.

It is easy to setup a React web app with Auth0 authentication on the front end. They have some pretty standard boilerplate code which works well for most part. Where they make it a bit more complicated for intermediate developers like me is the protecting an API with the authentication.…

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