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Why Two Tokens? A Developer's Journey from Confusion to Clarity
A junior developer initially shipped a single JWT with a 7-year lifespan, not understanding the need for separate access and refresh tokens. After months of confusion, a YouTube video revealed two key concepts: revocation (storing tokens to kill them) and scopes (restricting token permissions). The article explains how these ideas make two-token auth more secure than a single long-lived token.
Meridian48 take
The piece is a refreshingly honest account of how 'industry standard' practices can be adopted without understanding, but it's a tutorial-level explainer, not breaking news.
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