Auth0 has a nice article about the differences here: https://auth0.com/blog/2014/01/07/angularjs-authentication-with-cookies-vs-token/ https://auth0.com/blog/20

Auth0 has a nice article about the differences here: https://auth0.com/blog/2014/01/07/angularjs-authentication-with-cookies-vs-token/ https://auth0.com/blog/2014/01/07/angularjs-authentication-w... And you can play around with it using their interactive tool: http://jwt.io http://jwt.io