JWT Decoder #

This isn't really a blog post but rather a shameless plug. I needed a tool to decode JWT tokens and I wrote a chrome extension to do it. I thought I would share it here. I find the best tools are the simplest.

I have been working with JWT tokens for a while now and I find it useful to have a tool to decode them. As I tend to come across these in the browser I decided to write a chrome extension to do this. It was actually pretty easy the project can be found here: JWT Decoder. You can see theres not much code really, its a simple app.

The data is stored in local browser storage so the popup can be dismissed and the decoded data can be copied to the clipboard.

There are many websites which do this but I prefer this as I don't have to navigate to another page. I'm that lazy it seems...