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Every web app needs to remember who you are. How it does that, sessions, cookies, or tokens, shapes the entire architecture. The Core Problem: HTTP Is Forgetful HTTP is stateless. Every request your

Apr 23 · 13 min read · web-dev-articles.hashnode.dev  
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