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Alejandro Cavazos
Full Stack Developer
Yes, you have to put a middleware in place that will be in charge of decrypting the JWT and marking a request as authenticated or not.
Paweł Stachula
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But how the server retrieves the token? Typically, the token is stored in localStorage. I have a middleware for the POST request, but I do not know what to do with the party asking to serving GET request when express serve pages.
This is why you store the token on a cookie, so that the server can read it.
And what about the defense CSRF?