AUTH WEB TOKEN (AWT) 🔐

A token that enables authentication.

Installation

npm i authwebtoken 

More Information on AWT

• Login with payload data
• AWT returns a hashed token 🔑
• Store that in Front End with localStorage or cookies
• Verify that token with your backend
  • If vaild token --> AWT returns payload data

How to use?

AWT tokenize 🔒

const awt = require('awt');
const payload = {
  "_id": "sdhgd3782g378",
  "name" "xyz",
  "password: "s3e32344sad@4#$$"
}
const key = PROCESS.env.key; //keyboardcat
const token = awt.tokenize(payload,key)
console.log(token) 

//U2FsdGVkX19fw6LdQL21FA116uLaQNUfcTGz1FMsLz5PchpWQpy32Ngqtc4hPHqhpN4qFCB3sKwwAvjaZhHDozyNBOJVK/+zY3YGksnCGQ8=

options

• exp (in seconds) 30

example: awt.tokenize(pay,key,60) // token valid for 1 minute

AWT verify 🔓

const awt = require('awt');
const key = PROCESS.env.key; //keyboardcat
const verifiedUser = awt.verify(token, key);

if(verifiedUser){
  console.log(verifiedUser);
  /*const payload = {
    "_id": "sdhgd3782g378",
    "name" "xyz",
    "password: "s3e32344sad@4#$$"
  }*/
}

DEV Dependencies

• Crypto