Thanks for sharing all this info. All these things are really useful. Of course, they cannot be covered in a single tutorial, and it would also be out of the scope of the article.
I haven't implemented a solution that is so complex till now. Do you think that JWT tokens are a good solution for those cases? I mean, if you need to perform actions like checking if a user is logged in, JWT automatically loses a big advantage compared to traditional sessions, the ability to authenticate the user without any query to a DB server. Of course, you keep the authentication stateless but this can be achieved with generated ids that identify the user session (stateless session) too. What's your opinion on these subjects?
Correct.
I'm not experienced enough to give you a definitive answer.
Managing traditional sessions isn't that simple either, especially when you want the "remember me" feature. By implementing things yourself, you're likely to open doors.
Thus, a JWT library with stateless session definitely brings advantages. I also like the encoded payload+signature compared to a lot of things seen in cookies :p
So maybe using JWT and storing only the signature in a table with a foreign key on the user would be interesting.
Checks are only made during authentication.
Every other http call is stateless
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Hey Thibault,
Thanks for sharing all this info. All these things are really useful. Of course, they cannot be covered in a single tutorial, and it would also be out of the scope of the article.
I haven't implemented a solution that is so complex till now. Do you think that JWT tokens are a good solution for those cases? I mean, if you need to perform actions like checking if a user is logged in, JWT automatically loses a big advantage compared to traditional sessions, the ability to authenticate the user without any query to a DB server. Of course, you keep the authentication stateless but this can be achieved with generated ids that identify the user session (stateless session) too. What's your opinion on these subjects?
Correct.
I'm not experienced enough to give you a definitive answer.
Managing traditional sessions isn't that simple either, especially when you want the "remember me" feature. By implementing things yourself, you're likely to open doors.
Thus, a JWT library with stateless session definitely brings advantages. I also like the encoded payload+signature compared to a lot of things seen in cookies :p
So maybe using JWT and storing only the signature in a table with a foreign key on the user would be interesting.