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by andretti1977 3031 days ago
JWT is more a "lingua franca" token since it is not binded to a "http context", but in the end, cookies and jwt tokens or any other kind of authorization tokens are simply a way to identify a user. As i told you before JWT tokens are more loosely coupled to http request than cookies so they may be a best choice, especially if you plan to build stateless apis. The only strictly important rule is: do not store any sensitive informations on client side data structure since you can't trust the client side.
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> do not store any sensitive informations on client side data structure since you can't trust the client side

Except that the tokens are cryptographically signed, so as long as you verify them, you can trust them.