jwt-express-decode
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jwt decoding used with expess config
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jwt-express-decode
Middleware to decode incoming request in Express
Usage
npm install jwt-express-decode
Configuring options
Required
The params object must be given as the first argument or an error will be passed along next(error)
- params.secret = Your JWT token secret.
- params.header = the property on the header of the incoming where the JWT can be found.
Not Required
- params.req = this property name will be attached to the request and set to the decoded token, will be set to
req.token
if no value is passed in. - Whitelist = array of request url's that will not need JWT protection. It's important to remember that when using Express mounting, Express will strip away the pre fixed mounted url before the url is inside the middleware. So
app.use('/api', doSomething())
. Inside of thedoSomething()
middleware,req.url
will not include/api
. So if we sent a request to/api/users/all
the url insidedoSomething
will be/users/all
.
exports.doSomething = function(req, res, next){
req.url === // '/users/all'
}
This is important to remember when including a whitelist of url's. You have to make sure you don't include the mounted prefix on the url's you're wanting to whitelist. So in this case, we would not include the /api
prefix to the url's in the array, because we will use app.use('/api', decode(params, ['/users/new'])
Now in your server config
var express = require('express'),
decode = require('jwt-express-decode'),
app = express();
var params = {
secret: process.env.JWT_SECRET,
header: 'token',
req: 'token'
};
// white list request that we don't want to lock down with JWT like new user
// signup
var whitelist = ['/user/new', 'user/verify']
app.use('/api', decode(params, whitelist));