Is there a node.js library for creating/validating a M2M Auth JWT token?

[jacek-ailo]

We have internal microservices that are using M2M Authentication to authorize the requests between each other:

• service that does the request, asks for a token like in here Using Machine to Machine (M2M) Authorization
• service that receives the request, validates it like in here Validate Access Tokens

However I don’t really like reading help docs (and then having to follow them if anything has changed in them) and copy pasting code for auth validation whenever I create a new service.

Is there some small JS library that does all of the above with auth0 (and extracts framework agnostic [not based on express])? If not, do you (auth0) plan to create one? Maybe someone else has created it already (for their own purposes, but then open sourced it)?

[tyf]

Responding to this as we go through some backlog and for future reference

@jacek-ailo

Is there some small JS library that does all of the above with auth0 (and extracts framework agnostic [not based on express])? If not, do you (auth0) plan to create one? Maybe someone else has created it already (for their own purposes, but then open sourced it)?

I am not aware of a library that provides the functionality to both request tokens from Auth0 AND verify them.

For future users: Typically, M2M tokens are requested using a library like node-auth0 or even something as simple as axios.

Tokens are can be validated with a number of libraries including auth0-jsonwebtoken (non-Express), and express-oauth2-jwt-bearer.

Hope this helps!