Session vs JWT Authentication: Secure Your App with JSON Web Tokens
🔒 Struggling to choose between Session-Based and JWT Authentication? In this video, we’ll break down both authentication methods, compare their advantages and disadvantages, and walk through a practical implementation of JWT authentication with secure cookie handling.
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🚀 What You’ll Learn:
✅ How password hashing & verification work using Argon2
✅ What is Session-Based Authentication and how it works
✅ Pros & cons of Session-Based Authentication
✅ Understanding JWT Authentication and why it’s popular
✅ Pros & cons of JWT-based authentication
✅ How JWT tokens work (Structure & Implementation)
✅ Installing and generating JWT tokens with credentials
✅ Securely setting cookies with JWT for authentication
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⌛TIMELINE⏳
⏱ 0:00 - Introduction to password hashing & verification using Argon2
⏱ 0:30 - Understanding session-based authentication
⏱ 2:50 - Advantages & disadvantages of session-based authentication
⏱ 5:00 - Introduction to JWT-based authentication
⏱ 6:30 - Advantages & disadvantages of JWT authentication
⏱ 7:10 - What we are going to implement in this video
⏱ 8:45 - Introduction to JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
⏱ 9:45 - Understanding the structure of a JWT token
⏱ 10:30 - Installing JWT package and dependencies
⏱ 11:40 - Calling the generateToken function with credentials
⏱ 13:10 - Defining and explaining the JWT token
⏱ 15:40 - Setting cookies with JWT for authentication
⏱ 17:20 - Next video update & what’s coming next