Authenticate Node JS Rest APIs With JWT
Let's See How We Can Authenticate Node JS Rest APIs With JWT Package Firstly install the jwt package in your node js project via below command: $ npm install jsonwebtoken Create User Token For creating token we can manage it in middleware . Let's say create AuthMiddleware.js file: const jwt = require ( 'jsonwebtoken' ); const createUserToken = async ( id , email ) => { try { const token = jwt . sign ({ "user_id" : id , "email" : email }, process . env . JWT_TOKEN_KEY , { expiresIn : process . env . JWT_TOKEN_EXP //2h, 30d }) return token } catch ( err ){ return '' } } module . exports = { createUserToken } Now in controller we can call this function for create token. Let's say we have UserControoler.js file inside which we are creating user token: const AuthMiddleware = require ( '../middlewares/AuthMiddleware' ); const create = async ( req , res , ne...