Ecosyste.ms: Awesome
An open API service indexing awesome lists of open source software.
https://github.com/jangbl/jwt-server-to-server
JSON Web Tokens (JWT) server to server communication with Node.js servers
https://github.com/jangbl/jwt-server-to-server
hmac hmac-sha256 hs256 javascript json-web-signature json-web-token json-web-tokens jws jwt jwt-authentication jwt-bearer-tokens jwt-middleware jwt-token node node-js nodejs rs256 server-to-server server2server tutorial
Last synced: 5 days ago
JSON representation
JSON Web Tokens (JWT) server to server communication with Node.js servers
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/jangbl/jwt-server-to-server
- Owner: jangbl
- Created: 2020-04-26T08:57:30.000Z (over 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2023-05-13T10:55:14.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-10-03T21:37:57.678Z (about 1 month ago)
- Topics: hmac, hmac-sha256, hs256, javascript, json-web-signature, json-web-token, json-web-tokens, jws, jwt, jwt-authentication, jwt-bearer-tokens, jwt-middleware, jwt-token, node, node-js, nodejs, rs256, server-to-server, server2server, tutorial
- Language: JavaScript
- Size: 436 KB
- Stars: 10
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 10
-
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
Awesome Lists containing this project
README
# JWT server to server communication in Node.js
## About
This repository is the source code for the [JWT server to server communication in Node.js tutorial series on Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1Nml43UBm6dge_ykMszBCtaSJ9RnxQNJ) on YouTube provided by [productioncoder.com](https://productioncoder.com).
Please help this repo with a ⭐️ if you find it useful! 😁
[](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1Nml43UBm6dge_ykMszBCtaSJ9RnxQNJ)
For updates, please follow [@_jgoebel](https://twitter.com/_jgoebel) on Twitter.
## 2 How to run this application
### 2.1 Install dependencies
Install the dependencies by running
```
npm install
```
### 2.2 HMAC communication
To initiate an HMAC server to server communication, you need to spin up two server so they can talk to each other
We recommend opening two terminal windows for this. In the first terminal run
```
npm run serverA
```
In the second terminal window run:
```
npm run serverB
```
You now have two servers running on port `3000` and on port `8080`.
### 2.3. RSA-based server to server communication
Make sure that you create two RSA keypairs and paste it in the root directory with the following file names
```
serverA-private.key
serverA-public.key
serverB-private.key
serverB-public.key
```
If you do not want to generate an RSA keypair with openssl via the command line, you can use an online service like [jsencrypt](https://travistidwell.com/jsencrypt/demo/index.html) if you just want to try out the project locally.
### 2.4. Let the servers talk to each other
To let one server send a message to the other server, you can hit the following unprotected `REST` endpoint with curl or with Postman:
```
POST localhost:8080/produce
```
Note that both servers support the `POST /produce` endpoint. Therfore, you can also hit
```
POST localhost:3000/produce
```
Both servers will not print log messages that indicate that they just exchanged information with `JWT` tokens in the header.
### 3 Security
To make this communcation truly secure, we would need to make use of a secure transport protocol such as `https`.
Since this is a tutorial and we did not want to complicate it further by using self-signed certificates, we just use `http` for the sake of simplicity.
We do this, so the tutorial is easier to understand. In a \_production scenario you need to use a secure protocol such as `https` / `TLS` to ensure a secure communication.