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Consider this scenario: you’re building a website that has a classic navbar atthe top, this navbar has a button that reflects the user authentication s...

First thing you usually have to do is check if the user exists in your database, otherwise you’ll kindly 302 to a signup page where he/she has to register, returning a message to show in the login form sometimes works as well - whatever suits you. When you get your refresh token back you’re ready to move on and handle the last part of the process, which is generating the jwt and returning a valid response to the user that will set those cookies. Also, note that the responses I return in case of errors are not very exhaustive for most scenarios, I'm conciously leaving out the details because it's not the focus of this blog post.

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