The article specifically addresses the confusion that you're exhibiting: >A lot of people mistakenly try to compare "cookies vs. JWT". This comparison makes no

The article specifically addresses the confusion that you're exhibiting: >A lot of people mistakenly try to compare "cookies vs. JWT". This comparison makes no sense at all, and it's comparing apples to oranges - cookies are a storage mechanism, whereas JWT tokens are cryptographically signed tokens. There's no such thing as "JWT exclusively". The JWT is just a chunk of data; it has to be stored somewhere, either in a cookie or in local storage.