padlock-auth

🔒 padlock-auth

Middleware & Services to implement token creation & validation for express app.

🚀 Quick start

• Install the package:

npm install padlock-auth

• create the .env file in the project root:

touch .env

• define the JWT_SECRET_KEY variable in the .env file:

JWT_SECRET_KEY = "<your-random-string>"

• Set the middleware for all protected routes:

router.post('/api/users', verifyTokenMiddleware, createUserController);

• Create the token where you need it:

const token = Token.create({ userId: user.id });

• (Optional) define the time the token will expire in the .env file (by default expires in 2 hours):

JWT_EXPIRES_IN = '2h'