passport.js strategies

As mentioned previously, passport.js provides a lot of strategies for easy integration. One of the strategies that we will be working on with is the JWT strategy. We have already added passport.js and initialized it. Now, let's add this strategy as well.

Installing the passport-jwt strategy

Just installing passport module is not sufficient for our needs. passport.js provides its strategies in separate npm packages. For jwt authentication, we have to install the passport-jwt module, as follows:

$ npm install passport-jwt --save

On successful installation, you should have these packages listed in the package.json file of the application:

...
"nodemon": "^1.14.10",
"passport": "^0.4.0",
"passport-jwt": "^3.0.1",
"sass-loader": "^6.0.6",
...

Configuring the passport-jwt strategy

Now that we have all the things we need, let's jump into the configuration setting for the JWT strategy. Add the following lines of code in server.js:

...
const morgan = require('morgan');
const fs =...