On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 11:48 AM Adnan Khan <akhan(a)an10.io&gt; wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm a junior javascript developer and am looking into ways to implement > SSO > using keycloak. My applications are javascript with backend rest node and > front-end vue. Before I go deeper into implementation I wanted to > understand why is there a javascript adapter and a node adapter as well. I > understand that the javascript adapter is client side and the node adapter > is server side. How do you authenticate a resource(end-point) from a > client-side adapter? > On your front-end app you use the keycloak.js (the Javascript adapter) to performs the login (with the redirect etc ...) , Keycloak will return you tokens. On of this token is the access token that you can use to call a resource (by passing the Authorization header with value "Bearer your_access_token" , probably secured with nodejs adapter in your case. > > Another thing that's confusing me is keycloak.js, what is it? how is it > used and its pros and cons? > > Thank you in anticipation and for bearing with the relatively noob > questions. > > Regards, > Adnan A. Khan > _______________________________________________ > keycloak-user mailing list > keycloak-user(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/keycloak-user >