--- title: Sessions vs JWTs - A Complete Guide to Authentication description: Authentication or auth for short is the process where a server recognizes the identity of a user. Authorization is then done, to allocate a role to the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/sessions-vs-jwts---a-complete-guide-to-authentication-rvqyjbqib twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Sessions vs JWTs - A Complete Guide to Authentication | daily.dev og:description: Authentication or auth for short is the process where a server recognizes the identity of a user. Authorization is then done, to allocate a role to the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/sessions-vs-jwts---a-complete-guide-to-authentication-rvqyjbqib og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/rVQyjbqIB.png og:image:alt: Sessions vs JWTs - A Complete Guide to Authentication og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Sessions vs JWTs - A Complete Guide to Authentication **[Hashnode](https://daily.dev/sources/hashnode)** · [@staticvoid](https://daily.dev/staticvoid) · 6 min read · 168 upvotes · 12 comments ## Summary Authentication or auth for short is the process where a server recognizes the identity of a user. Authorization is then done, to allocate a role to the authenticated user and allocate the required services to that particular user. There are 2 ways you can implement auth:Server-side sessions and JWTs. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@badace7** · 2 upvotes > Comparison between sessions and jwts. > Vert good article. **@sittshein** · 1 upvotes > Good aritcle. thank you for writing. **@thiagoci** · 1 upvotes > Good article. **@ikramdeveloper** · 1 upvotes > That was really amazing. I personally like JWTs for authentication **@noiseimpera** · 1 upvotes > useful! ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#authentication](https://daily.dev/tags/authentication) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/sessions-vs-jwts---a-complete-guide-to-authentication-rvqyjbqib) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Sessions vs JWTs - A Complete Guide to Authentication","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/sessions-vs-jwts---a-complete-guide-to-authentication-rvqyjbqib","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/sessions-vs-jwts---a-complete-guide-to-authentication-rvqyjbqib"},"datePublished":"2022-05-11T14:49:18.873Z","dateModified":"2022-05-11T14:49:18.874Z","description":"Authentication or auth for short is the process where a server recognizes the identity of a user. 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I personally like JWTs for authentication","datePublished":"2022-05-13T23:55:19.324Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/rVQyjbqIB#c-jDtqvs2No","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Ikram Ul Haq","url":"https://daily.dev/ikramdeveloper","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/67891334?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"useful!","datePublished":"2022-05-15T10:02:57.304Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/rVQyjbqIB#c-ort0y2_vO","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"saverio puccia","url":"https://daily.dev/noiseimpera","image":"https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/55894510?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}}]} ```