paseto VS wp-graphql

Might I suggest Paseto (https://paseto.io/) - it solves a lot of the headaches of JWT. Signing and encryption are two different things that require two different sets of keys, so you can't mess it up.

(Full disclosure, I've written one implementation: https://github.com/auth70/paseto-ts)

Though we'll be building a session-based authentication system, it's noteworthy that with the introduction of some concepts which will be discussed in due time, you can turn it into JWT- or, more securely and appropriately, PASETO-based authentication system.

Time we ditch it and use paseto

The PASETO web site goes over it. Mostly it's designed to make you do things the right way and avoid all the security holes you can fall into with JWT.

If this is too much to handle, you shouldn't have to! There's already solutions that handle it for you

Are you dead set on building a Nuxt + Vue application? Partial to NextJS like I am? Well good news everyone, WordPress has done a pretty decent job over the past couple of years building out the WordPress API and enabling developers to leverage WordPress as a Headless CMS. Pair that with the amazing WPGraphQL Pluginand you’re cooking with JavaScript. You get all the benefits of really solid backend CMS that end users are familiar with, and can grasp with a 1 hour CMS training, distributed using your favorite flavor of JavaScript.

It's very easy to use when you use https://www.wpgraphql.com/ Here's an example of a repeatable component I set up using the repeater filled. It might help you.

I am using Headless Wordpress with https://www.wpgraphql.com/ for API hosted on SiteGround and Nextjs for frontend.

I think you might be looking for WPGraphQL

- WPGraphQL

Look at other popular plugins to see what they do, and how that's different from what you did. For example browse a bit through https://github.com/wp-graphql/wp-graphql

As you can see I'm getting all the posts from my Wordpress GraphQL endpoint and receiving the title, excerpt, slug and date fields, there's more I can get if I follow the GraphQL API for Wordpress documentation, but that's all I need for the demo.

How does this compare to WPGraphQL https://www.wpgraphql.com that's been around for quite some time (https://github.com/wp-graphql/wp-graphql)

Did you find shortcomings with that plugin?

You can use wordpress as a backend and then hook up your frontend through a graphql api plugin.

You want to use WP as a headless CMS. Look at https://www.wpgraphql.com