🎟️ claudia-api-jwt-authenticator

Easily verify and read JWTs with Claudia

Installation

  npm i claudia-api-jwt-authenticator

Usage

with a public key

const ApiBuilder = require("claudia-api-builder");
const authenticator = require("claudia-api-jwt-authenticator");
 
// Begin by creating your Api Builder as normal
const api = new ApiBuilder();
 
// Next pass in the authenticator along with your key
const PUBLIC_KEY = `-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----
MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAry0bg77WbExsds8R4eJo
fNqbeWnu1QqRqG0wOk35JenMXDU6mCfUFas0ANgS/2PhxOoem5dtxKpJEzXF8eQh
xrO3J9zD9HMbLVMfodpG9Up9u+AUICGvMCAbAuCHcp7vTZtc+OmmSyk5qF1ApGnU
rWromBB8TDFVx0UdOR6I+1F3DvIk7mgjLAhwzycgsLRZFwXxS2mwHVAafD6QYbxZ
I655+ltaf3Gb3CBJSz888i3DfaKT30cCC/7r3rnOqbKjUcG8qxrsp+yOo8l6BeeJ
g57ITeuaRrSza7zdvS0Vydp9RS7VS9JdHQv9b48b7rsx+WLghI/AQ3kK0Xg85C9R
TQIDAQAB
-----END PUBLIC KEY-----`;
api.intercept(authenticator(PUBLIC_KEY));
 
// Register your routes as normal
api.get("/greeting", evnt => `Hello ${evnt.jwt.payload.name}!`);
 
exports.handler = api.proxyRouter

with a secret key

const ApiBuilder = require("claudia-api-builder");
const SecretsManager = require("aws-sdk/clients/secretsmanager");
const authenticator = require("claudia-api-jwt-authenticator");
 
// Begin by creating your Api Builder as normal
const api = new ApiBuilder();
 
// Next pass in the authenticator along with your key function
// Here we use AWS, but you can fetch your key from anywhere
const getSecret = (header, callback) =>
  new SecretsManager({region})
    .getSecretValue({SecretId})
    .promise()
    .then(({SecretString}) => JSON.parse(SecretString))
    .then(({secretKey}) => Buffer.from(secretKey, 'base64'))
 
api.intercept(authenticator(getSecret));
 
// Register your routes as normal
api.get("/greeting", evnt => `Hello ${evnt.jwt.payload.name}!`);
 
exports.handler = api.proxyRouter

See the tests for more examples of what you can and shouldn't do

Contribution & Feedback

Question? Bug? Feature request? Not sure? Open an issue!

If this is almost what you were looking for, let me know and I can probably help!

Pull requests welcome, but please get in touch first. I don't want to waste your time 😁

See the code on GitHub