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JWT Authentication Helper: decode() > Example
Source evidence: /Sources/honojs__hono/provenance.md Canonical citation: https://hono.dev/llms-full.txt#example
Summary
## Content
```ts
import { decode } from 'hono/jwt'
// Decode the JWT token
const tokenToDecode =
'eyJhbGciOiAiSFMyNTYiLCAidHlwIjogIkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiAidXNlcjEyMyIsICJyb2xlIjogImFkbWluIn0.JxUwx6Ua1B0D1B0FtCrj72ok5cm1Pkmr_hL82sd7ELA'
const { header, payload } = decode(tokenToDecode)
console.log('Decoded Header:', header)
console.log('Decoded Payload:', payload)
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