Json Web Tokens (JWT) in authentication

Archita Mittal
5 min readSep 14, 2023

If you have ever worked with authentication, you must’ve come across the term JWT, or if you haven’t it’s a good entry point for you into the authentication world. First we’ll try to understand what Json Web Tokens are exactly? Then we’ll look into how they fit into the authentication world, and lastly we’ll build a simple API that uses JWTs. Let’s go.

JSON Web Tokens

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