This package provides JSON Web Token (JWT) utilities and helps create tokens for use in authentication and authorization of web requests to your NestJS application. It contains a JwtModule that exposes a single JwtService provider to sign, verify and decode JWT tokens, either synchronously or asynchronously. The JwtService is configured with options (via JwtModuleOptions) that correspond to config of the NodeJS jsonwebtoken package used underneath.
Provides JWT utilities module for NestJS based on the jsonwebtoken package.
From the documentation:
The
@nestjs/jwtpackage is a utility package that helps with JWT manipulation. Thepassport-jwtpackage is the Passport package that implements the JWT strategy and@types/passport-jwtprovides the TypeScript type definitions.
From the project README.md:
Installation
$ npm i --save @nestjs/jwtUsage
Import
JwtModule:@Module({ imports: [JwtModule.register({ secret: 'hard!to-guess_secret' })], providers: [...], }) export class AuthModule {}Inject
JwtService:@Injectable() export class AuthService { constructor(private readonly jwtService: JwtService) {} }
