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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, node.js

Research direction

Review the linked Fly.io article and Hacker News discussion to understand the JWT criticisms and recommended usage patterns. Then inspect the package documentation and behavior to determine whether it adequately guides users; done means documenting clear recommendations and explaining how the package supports them.

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Description

criticisms are found here https://fly.io/blog/api-tokens-a-tedious-survey/

a ycombinator discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28295348

what are the recommended ways to use and not use JWT tokens? how does this package improve or guide the user toward following recommended approaches?

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