How does authentication work in a web app?
Adding authentication enables your web app to access limited profile information in order to customize the experience for users. Web apps authenticate a user in a web browser. In this scenario, the web app directs the user’s browser to sign them in to Azure Active Directory (Azure AD).
How to sign in from a web app?
In this scenario, the web app directs the user’s browser to sign them in to Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). Azure AD returns a sign-in response through the user’s browser, which contains claims about the user in a security token.
When do I need to log in to my App?
It depends on your user, the application type, and the data security requirements. Only ask your user to login if it’s necessary to do so. For e-commerce apps, it is when the user pays for the products – after they browsed the product range and added items to their carts. Even then it may not be necessary to log in.
What should my sign up page look like on my App?
The signup page needs to show a compelling and succinct statement of what your app offers and the customer benefit. Have the login/signup at the appropriate places. If your user wants to sign up at the end of the session, let them do it.
When do you need to restrict authentication sessions?
In complex deployments, organizations might have a need to restrict authentication sessions. Some scenarios might include: Conditional Access controls allow you to create policies that target specific use cases within your organization without affecting all users.
How to test the authentication session management tool?
The authentication session management controls show up in the result of the tool. To make sure that your policy works as expected, the recommended best practice is to test it before rolling it out into production. Ideally, use a test tenant to verify whether your new policy works as intended.
How to sign in users from a web app?
As a second phase, you can enable your application to call web APIs on behalf of the signed-in user. This next phase is a different scenario, which you’ll find in Web app that calls web APIs. Adding sign-in to a web app is about protecting the web app and validating a user token, which is what middleware libraries do.