JSON web token helper

A helper that aims to easily manage multiple secrets for your tokens.

Installation

NPM

npm install --save jsonwebtoken-helper

Yarn

yarn add jsonwebtoken-helper

Dependencies

• jsonwebtoken: https://github.com/auth0/node-jsonwebtoken

How to use?

Import the helper

const jwtHelper = require('jsonwebtoken-helper').default;

or with ES6

import jwtHelper from 'jsonwebtoken-helper';

Sign a payload

const payload = {
  name: 'John Doe'
};

const text = jwtHelper.sign(payload);

Verify your token

const text = jwtHelper.verify(token);

Customization

To customize the library, you need to use environement variables.

The bold value are mandatary.

• JWT_SECRET_SEPARATOR

The separator used to split the secrets and corresponding key ids.

Example

JWT_SECRET_SEPARATOR='######'

• JWT_SECRET_TOKEN

The list of secrets.

Example

JWT_SECRET_TOKEN='oldsecret######ceciestuntest######asupersecret'

• JWT_KEY_IDS

The list of the corresponding key ids.

Example

JWT_KEY_IDS='######keyidxyz######fjkal79r879sdf'

• JWT_ISSUER

The issuer that will provide the token.

Example

JWT_ISSUER='JohnDoeCorp'

• JWT_DEFAULT_EXPIRES

The default expire value for the token. If you don't provide it. The token will don't have a default expire value and never expire if you give anything.

Eg: 60, "2 days", "10h", "7d". A numeric value is interpreted as a seconds count. If you use a string be sure you provide the time units (days, hours, etc), otherwise milliseconds unit is used by default ("120" is equal to "120ms").

Example

JWT_DEFAULT_EXPIRES=60

Author

Guillaume Quittet

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gquittet/

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