LeeCheneler / auth-examples

JWT Auth Example

An example application using JWT authentication to talk to a secure API.

Getting started

Copy sample .env files, then make sure to fill them out with your auth providers details.

# Copy the server's .env file from the sample
cp packages/server/.env.sample packages/server/.env

# Copy the app's .env file from the sample
cp packages/app/.env.sample packages/app/.env

Install dependencies.

yarn

Run the server.

cd packages/server
yarn start

Run the app.

cd packages/app
yarn start

Web app

The web app is a basic React application that uses the oidc-client-js to authenticate.

The web app consists of an empty home page, a profile page that dislpays infomation from the user's id token and an items page that displays items fetched from the server API using the user's access token.

Server

The server is a basic Node.js Express that uses a combination of express-jwt and jwks-rsa to secure it the API via JWT.

The server has a protected endpoint GET: /api/items that returns items in the form of:

[
  { id: 1, title: "item 1" },
  { id: 2, title: "item 2" },
  { id: 3, title: "item 3" },
]