How to use httpOnly secure cookies in Ruby on Rails with devise-jwt

While sending JWTs via the auth header may work for your application, sometimes it won't and we need the extra security against XSS provided by cookies. In this episode, I explore how to set and use cookies instead of sending back the JWT in our response body (to be set by localStorage) and explain the advantages and disadvantages of each.

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* 01:25 - devise-jwt-cookie
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* 04:20 - other changes (non- cookie related)

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My name is David W Parker and I’m creating and publishing videos on ProgrammingTIL to help teach anyone and everyone who wants to code. I’m a huge fan of Ruby on Rails, Svelte, TailwindCSS, and WebGL. I’ve used React a lot in the past, as well as some Vue and AngularJS. I’ve done some professional Python and Django. I like to create real applications and my tutorials will walk you through how to build something real from beginning-to-end.

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Видео How to use httpOnly secure cookies in Ruby on Rails with devise-jwt канала David Parker