Love how clean this breakdown is! The 401 vs 403 distinction is somethng I wish I'd understood earlier—I used to throw 401 for everything auth-related until a code review caught me mixing authentication failures with permission issues. Once I started thinking "who are you?" for 401 and "you're not allowd here" for 403, debugging API errors got way easier. Gonna save this for onboarding new devs on the team!
Love how clean this breakdown is! The 401 vs 403 distinction is somethng I wish I'd understood earlier—I used to throw 401 for everything auth-related until a code review caught me mixing authentication failures with permission issues. Once I started thinking "who are you?" for 401 and "you're not allowd here" for 403, debugging API errors got way easier. Gonna save this for onboarding new devs on the team!