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tymon/jwt-auth vs Sanctum

Hello,

Simple curiosity : is there really a situation where it would be preferable to use tymon/jwt-auth rather than Sanctum ?

Thanks a lot.

V

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@vincent15000 It completely depends what you want to do.

JWTs are for non-sensitive information, as the payload is in plaintext. The message is just signed so that the receiver can verify the token and check its contents haven’t been tampered with in transmission.

Sanctum should be used to authenticate a SPA, or for simple authentication of native apps like mobile applications.

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