🔧 Building Refreshing JWT Tokens in Node.js: A Complete Guide

When you’re building authentication in a Node.js application, JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) are one of the most common approaches. They’re fast, stateless, and easy to work with. But they also come with a catch: expiration. If you issue a short-lived token (say, 15 minutes), users get logged out too often. If you issue a long-lived token (say, 7 days),...