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Programming › Re: How Do Developers Handle Authentication? by potnovus(m): 10:00am On Aug 10, 2023
I'll try to give you general guidance here since this is an authentication problem, irrespective of technology used; also because I'm not necessarily a nextjs engineer. However, I'm aware that NextAuth uses JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) for managing user-sessions, with the option to persist session info in a database.

Without knowing the specifics of your implementation and authentication needs, I can only advise that you pay attention to the expiration-time (Time To Live) set for the generated JWTs after you authenticate a user for the first time. When you increase the TTL of your tokens, you allow the user session to live a bit longer.

That been said, if as part of your authentication flow, you maintain both a "refresh" and "access" token, then, you may have to decide which of the tokens' TTL you want to increase to satisfy the authentication need of your solution.

I hope this helps.

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