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Setup authentication flow using JOSE and JWT

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Setup authentication flow using JOSE and JWT

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In this lecture, we will set up the authentication flow using Jose with JWT. For that, I will install the dependency for Jose and JWT. So I'll open the terminal. And let me just say npm i jose jsonweb token, enter. All right, now we will need a secret key for encoding and decoding the token. So I will open the dotenv file and add the secret key for JWT by saying JWT underscore secret JWT secret. Now here I have used a simple string as the secret value which you can generate or type manually. However, we ideally have a 32 character value. So I have typed 32 characters and you can get this exact value from the source code attached. Now I will open the utils.js file and create the function which will generate the JWT token. And for creating a token, we will create an instance of the SignJWT class which is a part of the Jose library. And this class will actually return the JSON web token in the instance. But this process is going to be asynchronous. So I will create the asynchronous…

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