Why JWT token?

I'm planning to create a web application. For authentication, I want to use JWT token. I have read everyone that is safe, but I don't understand why. Let's say the user login and the server sends back the token. The user wants to see his/ her order...

Can we use user password as jwt secret key?

To create a userToken, we need the token payload and the secret key after which it returns the token. const token = jwt.sign(data, "secretkey"); Instead of hard-coding the word secretKey (or any word) as a secret key, is it a good practice to user p...

passport-twitter with jwt and Next.js

Hello Everyone, Is there any good example I could follow for passport-twitter npm package with nextjs. I am working on a project and could be great helpful. Thank you.

How do you handle jwt token expiration?

Let's say we have the following scenario: A user login with correct credentials and he gets a token with expiration date. After some time (lets say 30 minutes) the token is expired and the user has to give again his credentials to be authorized. Our ...

Private Route With JWT and ReactJS

it is possible to implement a private route receiving parameters per body and JWT token with react router?

What are the main security threats of SPAs and how to avoid them?

What are the main security threats of SPAs and how to avoid them? How to implement authorization in SPA? For example, if an user tries to access a page for which he/she doesn't have rights, redirect user to an error page? Thank you!

How does JWT work in a login system?

I am struggling for a stable answer for this question and not getting any. My doubts are Do we need to store the username and password in the token and if yes then how that i.e where this data are getting store in the payload part is it in the s...

Where do we store JSON Web Token on client-side?