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Major Difference between Cookie vs Tokens

              Major Difference between Cookies vs Tokens   Cookies and Tokens are the way through which you authenticate your SPA(Single-page Applications) as well as other web-based applications. But the current scenario of development prefers Tokens based authentication over Cookie-based authentication.             The major difference between Cookie and Tokens are: Cookie-based authentication used as a default method for authentication and it used for a long time(traditional way of authentication). In cookie-based authentication, an authentication record must be kept the server and client-side and   the server needs to keep track of active sessions in the database .   Whereas in Token-based authentication has become more popular nowadays because it uses a lot in Web-apps, APIs and SPA(Single-page Application).  The token-based authentication server does not keep t...