What is JWT? JWTs have become an indispensable part of modern application development. In this blog, we’ll explore what JWTs are, why they’re so widely adopted, and how they work under the hood.

Here, we’ll be discussing JWTs primarily in the context of web applications, but keep in mind that JWTs can be used in various other scenarios as well.

1 What is JWT?

JWT stands for JSON Web Token (JWT), a compact and self-contained way for securely transmitting information between parties as a JSON object.