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Add JWT tokens to the user service

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Add JWT tokens to the user service

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- [Instructor] In this video, we will now change our user service so that it returns a JWT token on authentication. For that, I open first my user service. So I head into workspace, microservices, and user service, and there, I open routes index js. You also see on the terminal that I have the user service also here open, and I will now quit nodemon with Control C. And then I will first install a module that gives us JSON web token. And for that I type NPM install dash S and it's JSON Web token. And now I can right away, again, enter NPM run dev and start the user service again. Then I will bring in now JWT that we just installed by adding const, JWT equals require, JSON web token. Now I head down to my authentication route, so it's down here in post users authenticate. And now all I will do is instead of returning the user, I will now create the token. So const token equals JWT, and it has a method to sign a object.…

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