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How to validate a jwt in typescript
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| import { Response, Request, Router } from 'express'; | |
| import jwt from 'jsonwebtoken'; | |
| import jwksClient from 'jwks-rsa'; | |
| const router: Router = Router(); | |
| const BEARER = 'Bearer '; | |
| const jwkClient = jwksClient({ | |
| strictSsl: true, | |
| jwksUri: process.env['JWK_URL'] //or wherever you have your configs | |
| }); | |
| let cert = ""; | |
| /** | |
| * Anything on this route, will be intercepted by router.use | |
| * It will try and validate the token | |
| * if it passes, it will move to the actual method ie router.post('/test-auth' | |
| * if not it will return a 401 and never hit the end point | |
| */ | |
| router.use((req, res, next) => { | |
| if (!req.headers.authorization.includes(BEARER)) { | |
| return res.status(401).send({success: false}); | |
| } else { | |
| const token = req.headers.authorization.replace(BEARER, ''); | |
| const decoded = jwt.decode(token, {complete: true}); | |
| if (decoded === null) { | |
| return res.status(401).send({success: false}); | |
| } | |
| const payload = decoded.payload; | |
| const header = decoded.header; | |
| const kid = header.kid; | |
| jwkClient.getSigningKey(kid, (err, key) => { | |
| if (err) { | |
| return res.status(401).send({success: false}); | |
| } | |
| cert = key.publicKey; | |
| jwt.verify(token, cert, (err, verfied) => { | |
| if (err) { | |
| res.status(401).send({success: false, err: err}); | |
| } | |
| //if no err we gud | |
| next(); | |
| }); | |
| }); | |
| } | |
| }); | |
| router.post('/test-auth', (req: Request, res: Response) => { | |
| res.status(200).send({success: true, cert: cert}); | |
| }); | |
| export const VerifyTokenController = router; |
Have you installed the libraries via npm, and are you using ES modules?
it looks to me that you need to install the types ^^
npm i --save-dev @types/jsonwebtoken
For future reference, if you hover over tthe error you will see the answer.
import * as jwt from "jsonwebtoken"
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getting error in imports please help
