This article explores secure session management using JWE and JWS in FastAPI and Next.js. Key considerations include balancing security, client-side accessibility, and performance. JWS is recommended for non-sensitive data needing frontend access, while JWE adds encryption for critical use cases. Both methods rely on standardized libraries and secure key management to ensure integrity and confidentiality in decoupled architectures.

In this tutorial, we’ll walk through how to integrate Strawberry GraphQL and FastAPI with Relay to enable persisted queries, which can significantly boost the performance of GraphQL applications. We’ll cover setting up a Relay environment on the client side, configuring a GraphQL server to handle persisted queries, and extending the Strawberry GraphQL schema to manage these queries.