parMaster / jwt-go-example

Example application that implements JWT based authentication

JWT Go example

Example application that implements JWT based authentication. Read the blog post here

To run this application, build and run the Go binary:

go build
./jwt-go-example

Now, using any HTTP client with support for cookies (like Postman, or your web browser) make a sign-in request with the appropriate credentials:

POST http://localhost:8000/signin

{"username":"user1","password":"password1"}

You can now try hitting the welcome route from the same client to get the welcome message:

GET http://localhost:8000/welcome

Hit the refresh route, and then inspect the clients cookies to see the new value of the token cookie:

POST http://localhost:8000/refresh

You can find the working source code for this example here.