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Jwt suddenly stops working on protected route

I am running Nodejs API application on the droplet. I was able to login to my app and access the protected route. But on accessing the route the following day, I started getting TokenExpiredError: jwt expired on accessing any protected route. It will work well again after I ran Pm2 kill and re-deploy again

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asmelitus • August 25, 2020

I have resolved the issue. I was setting the expiry date at the global context as a constant variable. Thanks

mellorison • August 25, 2020

Any updates on this?

asmelitus • July 2, 2020

const handleJWT = async (req, res, next) => async (err, user, info) => {
  const error = err || info;
  const logIn = Promise.promisify(req.logIn);
  const apiError = new APIError({
    message: error
      ? error.message
      : "Authentication required: Authentication with a valid API Key is required.",
    status: httpStatus.UNAUTHORIZED,
    stack: error ? error.stack : undefined,
    errors: "",
    isPublic: true,
    title: ""
  });

  try {
    // if user is not login
    if (error || !user) throw error;
    await logIn(user, { session: false });
  } catch (e) {
    return next(apiError);
  }

  req.user = user;
  return next();
};

export const authorize = () => async (req, res, next) =>
  passport.authenticate(
    "jwt",
    { session: false, failWithError: true },
    await handleJWT(req, res, next)
  )(req, res, next);

From the error trace, it points to

passport.authenticate(
    "jwt",
    { session: false, failWithError: true },
    await handleJWT(req, res, next)
  )(req, res, next);

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