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Fix Base64URL decoding errors in JWTs with this simple function

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

Developers often hit DOMException when using atob() on JWT segments because JWTs use Base64URL, not standard Base64. Base64URL replaces + with -, / with _, and omits padding. A short normalize-and-pad function converts Base64URL to standard Base64 before decoding.

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A common gotcha that wastes developer hours — this fix is trivial but rarely documented clearly.
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atob() can't decode a JWT — the Base64URL gotcha (and the fix) →
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