next-sessions

A simple lightweight library for session handling in Next.js applications built on top of jsonwebtoken. This library is still in the Beta phase of development and more features are to be added overtime to handle various scenarios that can occur when handling authentication.

Installation

// NPM
npm install next-sessions

// Yarn
yarn add next-sessions

Usage

Create a Session Token

import { createSessionToken } from "next-sessions";

const token = createSessionToken({ userId: "123" });
console.log(token);

Verify a Session Token

import { verifySessionToken } from "next-sessions";

const session = verifySessionToken(token);
console.log(session);

Set Cookies

import { setCookie } from "next-sessions";

// In an API route
setCookie(res, "session", token, { maxAge: 3600 });