JWT Authentication in Angular 11 – Token based Authentication tutorial with example
JSON Web Token (JWT) are digitally signed JSON payloads and token based stateless authentication mechanism.
A JWT consists of three parts that are: The Header, Payload and the Signature. Both the header and the payload store data in the JSON format, which is Base64-encoded, while The signature is created using the Base 64 encoding of the header and the payload.
JWT is usually used in HTTP Authorization headers and temporary replacement for the username/password combination!