JWT Auth with DjangoREST API

Bonfire Algorithm
Nov 3 · 8 min read

Token based authentication allows the server and the frontend (whether that be web, native mobile or something else) to be decoupled and reside on different domains. JSON Web Tokens (JWT) is a popular implementation of token based authentication, and in this article we’ll use it to authenticate users in an API for notes built with Django REST Framework.

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