Rails 8 API Authentication with Cookies and React Frontend
Overview In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to implement cookie-based authentication with Rails 8. Rails offers many authentication methods—even DIY ones—but cookies are secure, easy to use, and handled automatically by browsers. While many tutorials use JWT, it has a major drawback: where do you store it? Local storage is insecure and easily exploited. Though you can secure JWTs with extra effort, it’s still a relatively new technology. If your primary API consumer is the browser, cookie-based authentication is safer and simpler. ...