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How to generate and set `JWT_SECRET` and `JWT_EXPIRATION_TIME` in express

When I run my server,I suffered following errors.

Error: Config validation error: "JWT_SECRET" is required. "JWT_EXPIRATION_TIME" is required

Therefore I must set JWT secret key and so on.

I'd like to know how to set JWT_SECRET.But I couldn't figure out how to generate and set them.

I set.env file,I must configure some of variables in them.

my.env file is like following.

.env

JWT_SECRET=
JWT_EXPIRATION_TIME=

If someone know good way to generate SECRET please let me know.

Thanks

Solution

  • As mentioned by @Arya and @JaromandaX, you have to type something after JWT_SECRET something like this JWT_SECRET=yourfavoritecolor and JWT_EXPIRATION_TIME=3600. You can call them in your code with process.env.JWT_SECRET and process.env.JWT_EXPIRATION_TIME.

    Check this article on JWT-Right way of implementing JWT