auth-patterns

Implement JWT-based authentication by issuing short-lived access tokens and long-lived refresh tokens, storing them in HttpOnly cookies, and rotating refresh tokens upon each use to maintain secure session management across your full-stack application.

The best way to enforce RBAC authorization is to map user roles to access policies, verifying permissions on both backend API endpoints and frontend UI routes to restrict sensitive resources to authorized roles like admin.

Token revocation with stateless JWT sessions works by maintaining a server-side denylist or utilizing versioned tokens, allowing the backend to explicitly invalidate active tokens before their expiration time during secure session termination.

Yes, you can use OAuth to secure session management for full-stack applications by delegating authentication to an external provider, then issuing local JWTs and managing HttpOnly cookies for subsequent API authorization.

You need HttpOnly cookies for secure JWT access tokens because they prevent client-side JavaScript from accessing the tokens, mitigating cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and protecting session integrity across web UIs.