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Angular 5 and 4 Cookie vs Token Authentication

How to set in Angular 4 cookies, type number values?
Why Token Based Authentication is more preferable Then Cookie based?

Cookie Based Authentication -
The cookie based authentication has been the default and the cookie based authentication is stateful.

Stateful – keep and track of the previously stored information which is used for current transaction.
A stateful service based on HTTP cookies uses the HTTP transport protocol and its ability to convey cookies, used as session context.

Example1 for Cookies
import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { CookieService } from 'ngx-cookie-service';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  templateUrl: './app.component.html'
})
export class AppComponent implements OnInit {
  cookieValue = 'default';

  constructor( private cookieService: CookieService ) { }

  ngOnInit(): void {
    //set Cookie
    //Syntax- set( name: string, value: string, expires?: number | Date, path?: string, domain?: string, secure?: boolean ): void;
    this.cookieService.set( 'appCookie', 'This is hello apps.' );
  }

  //set Cookie
  //Syntax - get( name: string ): string;
  getCookie(key: string){
    return this.cookieService.get(key);
  }

  //check Cookie
  //Syntax - check( name: string ): boolean;
  checkCookie(key: string){
    return this.cookieService.check(key);
  }

  //get All Cookie
  //Syntax - getAll(): {};
  getAllCookie(){
    return this.cookieService.getAll();
  }

  //delete cookie
  //Syntax - delete( name: string, path?: string, domain?: string ): void;
  deleteCookie(key: string){
    return this.cookieService.delete(key);
  }

  //delete All cookie
  //Syntax - deleteAll( path?: string, domain?: string ): void;
  deleteAllCookie(){
    return this.cookieService.deleteAll();
  }
}


Example 2 For Cookies –
import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { Cookie } from 'ng2-cookies/ng2-cookies';

export class AppComponent implements OnInit {
  constructor( private cookieService: CookieService ) { }

  ngOnInit(): void {
    //set Cookie
    //Syntax- set( name: string, value: string, expires?: number | Date, path?: string, domain?: string, secure?: boolean ): void;
    this.cookieService.set( 'appCookie', 'This is hello apps.' );
  }

  //set Cookie
  //Syntax - get( name: string ): string;
  getCookie(key: string){
    return this.cookieService.get(key);
  }

  //delete cookie
  //Syntax - delete( name: string, path?: string, domain?: string ): void;
  deleteCookie(key: string){
    return this.cookieService.delete(key);
  }
}


Cookies Limitations
We can only store around 20 cookies per web server and not more than 4KB of information in each cookie and they can last indefinitely should you choose to specify the max-age attribute.

Token Based Authentication -
The Token based authentication has received expansion over last few years due to RESTful Web APIs, SPA and so on. The Token based authentication is stateless.

Stateless – every transaction is performed as if it was being done for the very first time and there is no previously stored information used for the current transaction.

Token Based Authentication Steps As -
User enters their login credentials and the server verifies the entered credentials. Validating to the entered credentials, It’s correct or not. If the credentials are correct, returns a signed token. This token is stored local storage in the client side. We can also store in session storage or cookie.

Example As –
private _setSession(authResult, profile) {
  //Save session data and update login status subject
  localStorage.setItem('access_token', authResult.accessToken);
  localStorage.setItem('id_token', authResult.idToken);
  localStorage.setItem('userProfile', JSON.stringify(profile));
  this.setLoggedIn(true);
}


Advantages of Token-Based Authentication -
1.     Stateless,
2.     Scalable
3.     Decoupled
4.     JWT is placed in the browsers local storage
5.     Protect Cross Domain and CORS
6.     Store Data in the JWT
7.     Protect XSS and XSRF Protection

Where To Store Tokens?
It does depend on you, where you want to store the JWT. The JWT is placed in your browsers local storage.

Example - Authentication Service [auth.service.ts]
import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { Router } from '@angular/router';
import { BehaviorSubject } from 'rxjs/BehaviorSubject';
import { AUTH_CONFIG } from './auth0-variables';
import { tokenNotExpired } from 'angular2-jwt';
import { UserProfile } from './profile.model';

// Avoid name not found warnings
declare var auth0: any;

@Injectable()
export class AuthService {
  // Create Auth0 web auth instance
  // @TODO: Update AUTH_CONFIG and remove .example extension in src/app/auth/auth0-variables.ts.example
  auth0 = new auth0.WebAuth({
    clientID: AUTH_CONFIG.CLIENT_ID,
    domain: AUTH_CONFIG.CLIENT_DOMAIN
  });

  userProfile: UserProfile;

  // Create a stream of logged in status to communicate throughout app
  loggedIn: boolean;
  loggedIn$ = new BehaviorSubject<boolean>(this.loggedIn);

  constructor(private router: Router) {
    // If authenticated, set local profile property and update login status subject
    if (this.authenticated) {
      this.userProfile = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem('profile'));
      this.setLoggedIn(true);
    }
  }

  setLoggedIn(value: boolean) {
    // Update login status subject
    this.loggedIn$.next(value);
    this.loggedIn = value;
  }

  login() {
    // Auth0 authorize request
    // Note: nonce is automatically generated: https://auth0.com/docs/libraries/auth0js/v8#using-nonce
    this.auth0.authorize({
      responseType: 'token id_token',
      redirectUri: AUTH_CONFIG.REDIRECT,
      audience: AUTH_CONFIG.AUDIENCE,
      scope: AUTH_CONFIG.SCOPE
    });
  }

  handleAuth() {
    // When Auth0 hash parsed, get profile
    this.auth0.parseHash((err, authResult) => {
      if (authResult && authResult.accessToken && authResult.idToken) {
        window.location.hash = '';
        this._getProfile(authResult);
        this.router.navigate(['/']);
      } else if (err) {
        this.router.navigate(['/']);
        console.error(`Error: ${err.error}`);
      }
    });
  }

  private _getProfile(authResult) {
    // Use access token to retrieve user's profile and set session
    this.auth0.client.userInfo(authResult.accessToken, (err, profile) => {
      this._setSession(authResult, profile);
    });
  }

  private _setSession(authResult, profile) {
    // Save session data and update login status subject
    localStorage.setItem('access_token', authResult.accessToken);
    localStorage.setItem('id_token', authResult.idToken);
    localStorage.setItem('profile', JSON.stringify(profile));
    this.userProfile = profile;
    this.setLoggedIn(true);
  }

  logout() {
    // Remove tokens and profile and update login status subject
    localStorage.removeItem('access_token');
    localStorage.removeItem('id_token');
    localStorage.removeItem('profile');
    this.userProfile = undefined;
    this.setLoggedIn(false);
  }

  get authenticated() {
    // Check if there's an unexpired access token
    return tokenNotExpired('access_token');
  }
}


Use of AuthService in the Component Page –
//Use of AuthService in the Component Page.
import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { AuthService } from './auth/auth.service';
export class Login {
  constructor(private authService: AuthService) {
    // Check for authentication and handle, if hash present.
    authService.handleAuth();
  }
}



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