Go Tutorial => JWT Authorization in Go

Introduction

JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) are a popular method for representing claims securely between two parties. Understanding how to work with them is important when developing web applications or application programming interfaces.

Remarks

context.Context and HTTP middleware are outside the scope of this topic, but nonetheless those curious, wandering souls should check out https://github.com/goware/jwtauth, https://github.com/auth0/go-jwt-middleware, and https://github.com/dgrijalva/jwt-go.

Huge kudos to Dave Grijalva for his amazing work on go-jwt.

Creating a token using a custom claims type
Creating, signing, and encoding a JWT token using the HMAC signing method
Getting token from HTTP Authorization header
Parsing and validating a token using the HMAC signing method
Parsing the error types using bitfield checks
Using the StandardClaims type by itself to parse a token

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