@jc21/cypress-jwt-creation

Cypress JWT Creation

Create JWT tokens with ease

Cypress Installation

yarn add @jc21/cypress-jwt-creation

Then in your cypress Plugins file:

const {JwtCreation} = require('@jc21/cypress-jwt-creation');

module.exports = (on, config) => {
    // ...
    on('task', JwtCreation(config));
    // ...
    return config;
};

Cypress Usage

describe('Hit an authenticated endpoint', () => {
    it('Should be able to get a response', async function () {
        cy.request('/users/me').then($response => {

            const token = await cy.task('generateToken', {
                privateKey: '/path/to/private.key',
                issuer:     'cypress-tester',
                algo:       'RS256',
                expires:    '1 day',
                claims:     {
                    capabilities: 'superuser'
                }
            });

            // use token in your requests
        });
    });
});

The Private Key

Due to the fact that this plugin runs on the Cypress Backend, the location of the private key file must be defined as either the full path on disk or relative path to the running of the cypress command. You can define the file location either with an environment variable which can apply to all tests:

config.env.jwtPrivateKey

or within each individial test using the options below. In addition, you can also define the JWT algorithm if different from the default RS256 with:

config.env.jwtAlgo

Options

Option	Description	Optional	Default
privateKey	The location of the private key file	true	config.env.jwtPrivateKey
issuer	Issuer string	true	"cypress.testing"
algo	The request method of the endpoint	true	config.env.jwtAlgo or RS256
expires	English interval of token expiry	true	"1 day"
claims	An object of extra claims you might want to set	true	{}

Compiling Source

yarn install
yarn build
yarn test