In order to follow along this article, you need to have a basic understanding of express and node.js.

Introduction to JWT

JWT stands for JSON Web Token. It is a compact and secure way of transmitting JSON data. JWT can be easily verified because it is signed digitally. JWT can be used for authorization or exchanging information.
In this article, we will be using JWT for authorization.

Let’s start working!

Open up the terminal in main project directory and write the following command:

npm init -y

The -y flag here will help to set every value to default.

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