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JWT — JSON Web Tokens

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Sessions vs stateless tokens

Traditional session-based auth stores session data in the server's database and sends just a session ID to the client. Every API call requires a DB lookup.

JWT (JSON Web Token) moves the state to the client — the token itself contains the user's claims, cryptographically signed so the server can verify them without any database lookup. Perfect for distributed microservices.

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