dderevjanik/wordpress-jwt-auth

javascript JWT auth for https://github.com/Tmeister/wp-api-jwt-auth

Wordpress JWT Auth

JS Wrapper for wp-api-jwt-auth

Installation

Please, make sure that you have:

• installed wp-api-jwt-auth and enabled on your wp site
• enabled HTTP Authorization Header
• configurated Secret Key and CORs Support

install this package:

npm install wordpress-jwt-auth

Example

connectToJwt(host)

Authenticate using JWT

import { connectToJwt } from 'wordpress-jwt-auth';

// Promise
connectToJwt('https://www.myhosting.com/wordpress').then((jwtConnection) => {
    jwtConnection.generateToken('admin', 'password').then(userConnection) => {
        console.log(userConnection.token);
        // generated token

        jwtConnection.validate().then(validated => {
            console.log(validate);
            // true
        });
    });
});

// Await/Async
const jwtConnection = await connectToJwt('https://www.myhosting.com/wordpress');
const { token } = await jwtConnection.generateToken('admin', 'password');
console.log(jwtConnection.validate(token));
// true

generateToken(username, password)

You can import generateToken directly from library

import { generateToken } from 'wordpress-jwt-auth';

const { token } = generateToken('admin', 'root');

Real use

Deleting a post with id 32 from wordpress using REST API

import axios from 'axios';
import { connectToJwt } from 'wordpress-jwt-auth';

const WP_URL = 'https://www.mywordpress.com';
const POST_ID_TO_DELETE = 32;

const { generateToken } = await connectToJwt(WP_URL);
const { token } = await generateToken('superadmin', '2489cs12mklz');
const authHeader = { headers: { Authorization: `bearer ${token}` } };

axios.delete(`${WP_URL}/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/${POST_ID_TO_DELETE}`, {}, authHeader);