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Turso uses JWT (JSON Web Token) based authorization to control access to your databases. You can create tokens with different scopes and fine-grained permissions to restrict what operations each client can perform. There are two ways to issue JWT tokens for database access: Both approaches support fine-grained permissions to control access at the table and action level. All tokens are passed as the authToken when creating a database client: 
import { createClient } from "@tursodatabase/serverless";

const db = createClient({
  url: "<your-database-url>",
  authToken: "<your-token>",
});
You can get your database URL with turso db show <database-name> --url.