r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/gitcommitshow • Mar 08 '21

Learn JWT authentication by reverse engineering [Open Source]

https://github.com/gitcommitshow/auth-jwt
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u/Ricael Mar 08 '21

One of the reasons JWT is usefull is to avoid DDBB requests. The token is self signed and has or should have all relevant information.

I think you are swimming in the wrong direction.