What is the difference between the npm modules jsonwebtoken and jwt-simple?

Question

One example suggested using 'jsonwebtoken' and another suggested 'jwt-simple'... what are the differences?

Answer 1

jwt-simple is smaller than jsonwebtoken, just encode and decode.

Answer 2

I don't know the technical difference but for anything security related, I would go with the more active, more popular choice, and looking at the github statistics that choice seems to be jsonwebtoken.