PowerApps Component Framework Authenticating REST API Call from ServerBackEnd Web Api

[chigivigi08]

I have a completed ServerBackEnd Web Api that receives requests from a frontend web application and returns a response for them.

My ServerBackend uses JWT Bearer tokens.

The purpose of my PCF is to replace the the frontend web application and send authorized requests to the backend.

I would like to avoid working in React as I am unfamiliar with the language and it would take too long to make a proof of concept.

Is there a way to authenticate those request inside the PCF without it ?

I made successful get request that did not require a bearer token using the fetch method inside PCF.

[ben-thompson]

You can create a PCF component that doesn't use React (most of mine don't)

But I suspect your biggest issue won't be React is will be CORS - Cross-Origin Resource Sharing which may course you problems if you can't get the headers set correctly https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS

And if that's an issue the way I've got round CORS issues is to create a action within you PowerApp ...

If however CORS isn't an issue https://medium.com/better-programming/authentication-and-authorization-using-jwt-with-node-js-4099b2...

[chigivigi08]

I am using Azure AD authentication for my ServerBackend API.

I apologize for not mentioning it earlier.

So a JWT Token needs to come from there.