Aditya Gupta

Aditya Gupta

Aditya Gupta is a founding member and editor at CodeForGeek. He first found his way into tech by reading articles, and now writes approachable guides to Node.js security, authentication, AI tools, coding agents, and web scraping.

Create a JWT Authentication API in Node.js

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A JSON Web Token (JWT) API issues a short-lived token after your application has authenticated an account, then verifies it before a protected route runs. I ran JWT_SECRET=development-only-secret node test.mjs on Node v24.18.0 with express 5.2.1 and jsonwebtoken 9.0.3, and…

Online JWT Decoder

Paste a compact JSON Web Token into this free online JWT decoder to inspect its header and payload while the browser decodes the segments locally and makes no network request. Decode a JWT without sending it to a server A…