This article covers the pros and cons of using JWT and talks about a solution which has the advantages of JWTs without any of its disadvantages.

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This post discusses the pros and cons of using JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) for user sessions and proposes a session management flow that combines JWTs and server sessions for optimal security and scalability.

Are you using JWTs for user sessions in the correct way?

this is a good documentation showing the best way to work with jwt and why

I appreciated the approach to explaining the subject. Super enriching

Never enough of JWT articles :-)
Thanks for the writeup.
I feel this is a bit missing the larger debate around localstorage, XSS and the security concerns there. Even though you focus on saving JWTs into cookies, the article is is flying around that big elephant in the room.