We just added a new updated article that covers the same topic. You can find it here: Cookies vs Tokens: The definitive guide. Introduction There are basically two different ways of implementing server side authentication for apps with a frontend and an API: The most adopted one, is Cookie-Based Authentication (you can find an example here) that uses server side cookies to authenticate the user on
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