Hello Dev Community! 👋

It is officially Day 171 of my full-stack web development journey, and I am thrilled to announce that QuickChat (MERN Stack Real-Time Chat App) is officially complete! 🎉🚀

Today, I finalized the last key security layer: JWT Authentication & Route Protection Middleware.

As captured in my implementation snapshots (auth.js & utils.js):

1. Token Signature Utility (utils.js)