JWT AUTHENTICATION WITH GOFIBER

Contents

• Introduction

• Packages Used

• Images

  Introduction

  A Rest Api that authenticates requests using Json Web Tokens.

  JSON Web Token is an Internet proposed standard for creating data with optional signature and/or optional encryption whose payload holds JSON that asserts some number of claims. The tokens are signed either using a private secret or a public/private key.

  Packages Used

  • Gofiber -> Fiber is a Go web framework built on top of Fasthttp, the fastest HTTP engine for Go. It's designed to ease things up for fast development with zero memory allocation and performance in mind.

  • Gorm -> The fantastic ORM library for Golang.

  • Jwt-Go-> Used to create jwt tokens while using golang

  • Bcrypt -> Used to encrypt passwords.

  Images