May 10 · 6 min read · When you log into a website and it “remembers” you on the next request, this is because of authentication is working behind the scenes. But how does the server actually recognize you? This is where s
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May 10 · 5 min read · Authentication is one of the most important parts of backend development.Whenever users log in to an application, the server needs a way to identify them in future requests. This is where concepts lik
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May 10 · 7 min read · Concept Cookies, Sessions, and JWT are three interconnected but distinct mechanisms for maintaining user identity across HTTP requests. Cookies are a storage/transport mechanism; Sessions are server-s
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May 10 · 6 min read · Authentication is one of the most important parts of backend development because servers need some way to identify users after login. If a user logs into an application the server must somehow remembe
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May 10 · 8 min read · If you've been building anything with user logins, you've run into these three terms constantly. Sessions, cookies, JWT. Sometimes they get used interchangeably in tutorials, sometimes people act like
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May 10 · 7 min read · Introduction When I first started learning backend development, authentication felt unnecessarily confusing. Every tutorial was throwing around words like sessions, JWT, cookies, tokens, localStorage,
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