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Life & fun · May 31, 2023

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Front end-Only-Authorization – A new web standard

Front end-Only-Authorization – A new web standard launched on May 31, 2023 with 43 votes, #1,509 of 4,910 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.

In plain words

Front End-Only-Authorization is a web standard launched in 2023 that handles authorization directly in the browser rather than on backend servers. It is designed for developers building web applications who want to simplify their authentication infrastructure. The standard enables permission checking and access control to be managed entirely on the client side, potentially reducing server-side complexity for authorization logic.

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