What is the benefit? Why is this valuable?

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JWT tocken are widely used, esp with Node.js

What are common use cases?

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In addition to the currently used OAuth, we should consider adding support for JSON Web Token.

Technical Details

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This is defined under https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7519 

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A few other info sources:

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https://www.section.io/engineering-education/how-to-build-authentication-api-with-jwt-token-in-nodejs/

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https://frontegg.com/blog/oauth-vs-jwt

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https://www.toptal.com/web/cookie-free-authentication-with-json-web-tokens-an-example-in-laravel-and-angularjs

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https://jwt.io/