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JWT Authentication in Rust [Full Guide: Axum and Actix]

This is a tutorial on implementing JWT (JSON Web Token) based authentication in Rust using two popular web frameworks: Axum and Actix Web.

It demonstrates essential functionalities like

  • JWT encoding/decoding
  • User information extraction from tokens
  • Axum and Actix web request header extractors
  • Route handling in Axum and Actix Web
  • JSON response creation

While focusing on the implementation, the video also touches upon concepts like asynchronous programming, cargo workspaces, and dependency management in Rust.

Here's the github repo, you can view and star https://github.com/cudidotdev/JWT-Authentication-with-Rust-Axum-and-Actix.git

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