Gun.io Saloon Seminars: Protecting your API's with JSON Web Tokens

Gun.io Saloon Seminars: An open space for engineering conversations every week!

Whether directly or “under the hood”, most web developers are interacting with JSON web tokens (JWTs) to implement user authentication, handle sessions, and determine resource access. But why do we use them? What is their structure and how do they work? And what are the underlying technologies involved?