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Discussion on: Securing your Node js api with JSON Web Token

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Joris

Isn't the point of using web tokens that you don't need database access to users for every request?

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Tom Harvey • Edited

I was going to say that the article could benefit from more exploration of why this is a good approach.

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Sam (NBTX) • Edited

Good point, although this does minimize the amount of requests that you need to make to the database.