Refresh Tokens

It is a unique token that is used to obtain additional access tokens. This allows you to have short-lived access tokens without having to collect credentials every time one expires.

Access tokens, with brief validity, carry user details, while refresh tokens, stored as HTTP-only cookies, enable prolonged re-authentication without exposing sensitive information to client-side JavaScript.

 

JWT Authentication With Refresh Tokens

When building a web application, authentication is one of the important aspects, and we usually implement authentication using JWT tokens (You can learn more about JWT here). We create an access token and store it in the local storage or session or cookie. But there is a more secure way to implement this using Refresh Tokens.

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