express-pouchdb-jwt

Use JSON Web Token to authenticate express-pouchdb instance.

Usage

Here's a sample Express app, which we'll name app.js.

var express = require('express'),
    app     = express(),
    ExpressPouchDB = require('express-pouchdb'),
    PouchDB = require('pouchdb');
 
var expressPouchDB = ExpressPouchDB(PouchDB, {
  overrideMode: {
    plugins: ['express-pouchdb-jwt']
  }
});
jwt(expressPouchDB);
 
// configure JWT
expressPouchDB.couchConfig.set('httpd', 'authentication_handlers', 'jwt', () => {})
expressPouchDB.couchConfig.set('jwt', 'algorithm', 'HS256', () => {})
expressPouchDB.couchConfig.set('jwt', 'secret_or_public_key', 'secret', () => {})
 
app.use('/db', expressPouchDB);
app.listen(3000);

Example

After clone the project, run follow commands to start the project

npm install
npm run start

The if you try to connect to the pouchdb instance, you will fail: