Building a JWT Authentication API with Rust and Axum

Setting up our Rust and Axum project

• Installed Rust, Axum, and necessary dependencies.
• Created a new Rust project and installed required dependencies.
• Added dependencies such as Axum, Tokio, Serde, Chrono, jsonwebtoken, BCrypt, and Serde JSON.

Authentication endpoints using Axum middleware

Authentication routes

• Defined routes for user login and protected routes.
• Created routes for logging in and accessing protected resources.

Authentication handlers

• Implemented handlers for returning user profile information and user sign-in.
• Defined the logic for handling user login and generating JWT tokens.

Middleware for protected routes

• Implemented middleware function to protect routes using JWT authentication.
• Added function to validate JWT tokens and grant access to protected routes.

Testing with Postman

• Demonstrated how to test the authentication API using Postman.
• Showed how to access protected endpoints by providing the JWT token in the request.

If you would like to explore the complete project and delve deeper into the code, you can clone the repository from GitHub.