express-jwt
connect/express middleware that validates a JsonWebToken (JWT) and set the req.user with the attributes (by auth0)
express-jwt-authz
Validate the JWT scope to authorize access to an endpoint (by auth0)
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| express-jwt | express-jwt-authz | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1 | |
| 4,452 | 94 | |
| 0.4% | - | |
| 2.6 | 4.6 | |
| 17 days ago | 3 months ago | |
| TypeScript | JavaScript | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
express-jwt
Posts with mentions or reviews of express-jwt.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-31.
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Introducing the OAuth 2.0 Express SDK for Protecting APIs with JWT Bearer Tokens
Auth0’s previous advice for protecting Express APIs was with a combination of three SDKs: express-jwt, express-jwt-authz, and jwks-rsa. And whilst these work well and are popular SDKs, we felt the developer experience could be improved.
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Demystifying JWT: How to secure your next web app
Express-jwt: a great package that seamlessly integrates into Node.js Express apps. I highly recommend it if you’re building with Node.js and Express.
express-jwt-authz
Posts with mentions or reviews of express-jwt-authz.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-30.
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Introducing the OAuth 2.0 Express SDK for Protecting APIs with JWT Bearer Tokens
Auth0’s previous advice for protecting Express APIs was with a combination of three SDKs: express-jwt, express-jwt-authz, and jwks-rsa. And whilst these work well and are popular SDKs, we felt the developer experience could be improved.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing express-jwt and express-jwt-authz you can also consider the following projects:
next-auth - Authentication for the Web.
jose - JWA, JWS, JWE, JWT, JWK, JWKS for Node.js, Browser, Cloudflare Workers, Deno, Bun, and other Web-interoperable runtimes.
node-jwks-rsa - A library to retrieve RSA public keys from a JWKS (JSON Web Key Set) endpoint.
php-jwt - PHP package for JWT
jwt-decode - Decode JWT tokens; useful for browser applications.
Cookbook - The Data Engineering Cookbook
redux - A JS library for predictable global state management
cloudfront-auth - An AWS CloudFront Lambda@Edge function to authenticate requests using Google Apps, Microsoft, Auth0, OKTA, and GitHub login