Lesson: Stateful vs Stateless Auth

Lesson overview

Explore stateful vs stateless auth i.e. sessions vs JWTs

Lesson outline

The following items define the scope of the lesson. The lesson outline is flexible; you can improve, expand, and omit items whilst writing lesson content (make sure the pull request description mentions that).

• Explore differences
• Why sessions for the most part are better than JWTs

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• Lesson conforms to the outline above (unless outline has been modified).
• Lesson follows our Layout Style Guide.

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