simple-tokens

🗝 A simple package for signing and verifying simple-tokens.

Token

The token contains two parts: a) the payload b) the signature.

• payload: base64encode(JSON.stringify(object))
• signature: SHA256(payload + '.' + secret)
• token: payload + '.' + signature

Install

Install as NPM package:

$ npm install simple-tokens

Use simple-tokens

Require simpletokens

const simpletokens = require('simple-tokens');

Set secret:

simpletokens.configure('YOUR_SECRET_FRO_ENV');

Sign token:

const payload = { id: 1 }
const token = simpletokens.sign(payload);

Verify token:

const verified = simpletokens.verify(token);

Get payload from token:

const payloadObject = simpletokens.getPayload(token);