Protecting Node.js APIs: Audiences, Scopes, and Bearer Tokens

<p>JWT (JSON Web Tokens) have become a default choice for authentication and authorisation in modern systems.</p> <p>They are widely adopted because they are:</p> <ul>

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<p>Most ASP.NET Core auth tutorials assume a single JWT scheme: one token, one identity, one <code>[Authorize]</code> and you're done. Real systems don't always fit that shape. On