JWT Authentication Tutorial - Node.js

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Recommends random512 · 2020-03 · Stack Overflow · on “good approach for integrating jwt auth/refresh token with react app?”

LlI found this YouTube vid which provides a good intro to JWT auth tokens and refresh tokens: [this video] Now I'm trying to integrate this design with a React app. I can store the JWT in my app Context and then pass it to API endpoints. Each endpoint would include an authenticate hook to validate authentication with the provided token. I'm thinking that the authenticate hook could generate and return a refresh token if the original authentication token is within 10 seconds of expiration But with this ^^^ approach, it seems like I would need to possibly return the auth token or refresh token as part of the API endpoint response object so my React app would have the ability to easily get a handle

Recommends Michel · 2020-04 · Stack Overflow · on “Starting to use JWT in node.js”

I am trying to work with JWT in a node.js application. I followed this tutorial [this video] . But I am facing problems at the level of the middleware: function authenticateToken(req, res, next) which is at the timing 10:30 in the video. When I run the code I always have: authHeader == null I have tried various things to find other possible forms for req.headers['authorization'] like req.headers.authorization but to no avail. I need to say that I have a route in my app that allows me to login and that I use right before using the route hitting the middleware. But in any case the authHeader keeps being null . What should I do to make sure I get a valid authHeader as expected for the app to work as

Recommends Chris Faux · 2022-07 · Stack Overflow · on “JSON Web Tokens Node JS Server ERROR SyntaxError: Unexpected token } in JSON at position 24”

Me and others are experiencing this error : SyntaxError: Unexpected token } in JSON at position 24 at JSON.parse (<anonymous>) while following this tutorial on JSON Web Tokens (LINK: [this video] , around minute: 10:00) The error appears during this POST request: Content-Type: application/json { "username": "Kyle", } You can find the full code up to that point here: [LINK] There are 3 main files to watch for: server.js .env (I left the .env file in the github repository) request.rest (I used this file to make POST request but you can use POSTMAN or other methods) The error seems to be in server.js, specifically in the express-JWT method: app.post('/login', (req, res) => { // Authenticate User //

Cites AJ.beProgramming · 2020-08 · Stack Overflow · on “Where are JWT tokens stored in this example?”

I am a beginner and recently started learning about authorization and authentication. So i came across JWT and started looking for tutorials how to implement it in node js . Appearantly there is a jwt middleware for nodejs called "jsonwebtoken". I have watched some videos about it and learned that you can access the created token by accessing the header : (req.headers) Video I got the information from [this video] code [LINK] now I'm dealing with the problem where that "header" is coming from and where it is stored . Is it a html header or a specefic cookie. I know there are 3 storages (local, session and cookie storage) but in what of these 3 is it stored. I am really confused

Cites callmevari · 2021-08 · Stack Overflow · on “Which is the correct way to persist Firebase Session after cookie expires?”

I've been dealing with authentication, reading and watching videos about it. I came up building my own JWT solution, based on an access_token who expires after five minutes, and a refresh_token that never expires. I stored that tokens in cookies and I use the second one to provide more access_tokens when needed. I store the refresh_token in Redis, to be able to revoke if one of those is leaked / stolen. Nowadays, I need to move my auth system to Google Firebase in order to store my users there, and to add the Google and Facebook login as well. But I found that I need to create a sessionCookie that expires in, as much, two weeks. After that, the user is signed-out from the app and it needs to

Cites Someone · 2021-09 · Stack Overflow · on “How do I make node.js using express find a JSON Web Token (JWT) inside of a response header cookie in user's browser?”

I hope I didn't misunderstand your question and waste a bunch time. Short Answer: How to retrieve information Use req.body or req.headers . If something will contain the token or authentication details, then it's one of these two. Full Auth Walkthrough: To get the JSON Web Tokens you first have to generate them. Wouldn't recommend implementing your own token authentication though. I'll show how to create a whole authentication system here step by step. For simplicity, let's say we have an exported route in a file auth.js , this route will be a sub-route domain.com/auth , an array of all active refreshTokens and the jwt : const express = require("express") const jwt = require("jsonwebtoken")

Cites Sandeep Amarnath · 2022-10 · Stack Overflow · on “Why Does OAuth v2 Have Both Access and Refresh Tokens?”

I got some additional resources here which clarify certain things on why we need refresh_token . Some of the key points of these resources are following: In real world, it's better to have separate servers called authServer and resourceServer/s authServer - used only for authentication and authorization. This server's responsibility is to issue refresh token , access token and also login & logout the users resourceServer - this server (can also be multiple servers load balanced) provides protected data. This data can be like products , reviews and so on in an e-commerce-project for example One of the uses of refresh_token is, we don't have to send username and password (credentials) over the

Cites thisdude19129 · 2023-01 · Stack Overflow · on “Is it "secure" to store a password and username in a .env file in a server to validate an admin API endpoint against?”

Context I've build a RESTful API server in Actix-Web with Rust that's hosted on a Heroku paid plan. It has n amount of publicly available endpoints to access content, alongside 3 strictly admin-only endpoints (for creating, editing, and deleting public content). I am the only developer who'd ever need to access the admin-only endpoints - and infrequently at that. Several random users will be using the publicly available endpoints daily. Normally, I'd implement an authentication/authorization strategy akin to this [this video] using JWTs (but obviously in Rust for my case). However, the added complexity that comes with this "more common" solution seems overkill for my simple use-case. My theorized