JWT Authentication for Flask

This is source code for a video I made when demonstrating how to implement JWT Authentication for Flask REST APIs. This videos series walks through the following.

• Project SetUp
• Database Management with Flask-SQLAlchemy
• User Account Creation
• JWT Authentication with Flask-JWT-Extended

How to run the project

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/jod35/JWT-Auth-for-Flask.git && cd JWT-Auth-for-Flask.git/

2. Install requirements

pip install requirements.txt

3. Create a .env file and set environment variables

FLASK_SECRET_KEY=<your-secret-key>
FLASK_DEBUG=<your-debug-boolean-value>
FLASK_SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI=<your-sqlalchemy-db-uri>
FLASK_SQLALCHEMY_ECHO=<your-sqlalchemy-echo-value>

4. Create a FLASK_APP environment variable.

export FLASK_APP=src/

5. Create the database by running

flask shell

6. In the interactive shell run the following

Python 3.11.1 (tags/v3.11.1:a7a450f, Dec  6 2022, 19:58:39) [MSC v.1934 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
App: main
Instance: C:\Users\jod35\Documents\coding\JWT Auth flask\instance
>>> from models import User
>>> db.create_all()

7. Finally run the application with flask run