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by jmhmd 390 days ago
I use JWTs to let me do auth on cached resources. I can verify permissions in an edge worker and deliver the cached resource without needing to roundtrip to the database. Not sure how to implement that without JWT (or rolling my own solution). Lots of people here saying some version of “I don’t see the use case, just use X”, but these kinds of standards nearly always arise as a result of a valid use case, even if they aren’t as common.