This will be part one of two posts looking at using JSON Web Tokens (JWT) for authentication and authorisation. I’ll be integrating tokens into NodeJS Express and Apollo GraphQL server.

It will help if you are familiar with Express and Apollo GraphQL to fully benefit from this post, but reading this will give you a good idea of how to use JWT for authentication in Node applications.

First, let’s cover the basic flow of JWT authentication when a request is made.