JWT Token Auth Python

Secure a Flask REST API with JSON Web Token also deploy on heroku.

Install dependecies

python --version

pip install -r requirements.txt
or
pip3 install -r requirements.txt  // for MAC

Run server

python app.py
or
python3 app.py or nodemon app.py // for MAC

You should be able to run this app on your own system via the familiar invocation and visiting http://localhost:5000.

Run Postman collection api testing

yarn install
yarn test

Set env config variable

name	Description	e.g.
DEBUG	Run flask development-mode	True or False
FLASK_ENV	Run flask enviorment-mode	development
TZ	Time zone of server	Asia/Calcutta
SECRET_KEY	JWT app SECRET_KEY	yoursecretkey123789
MONGOURL	mongo db server url	mongodb://usename:password@serverurl:27017/MONGODB?ssl=true&retryWrites=true
MONGODB	mongo database name

References

• Related Article

• PyJWT

• Flask-JWT-Extended PIP

• logot jwt

• Jwt.io

• Stackoverflow sqlalchemy