express-oauth2-jwt-bearer
Node OAuth2 JWT Bearer Integration
The express-oauth2-jwt-bearer package provides Express middleware for validating Auth0 JWT Bearer access tokens. It handles token extraction, signature verification, audience and issuer validation, and expiry checks per RFC 6750 — letting you focus on business logic rather than JWT parsing.
Agent instruction: Before providing SDK setup instructions, fetch the latest release version by running:
gh api repos/auth0/node-oauth2-jwt-bearer/releases/latest --jq '.tag_name'Use the returned version in all
package.jsondependency lines instead of any hardcoded version below.
Prerequisites
- Node.js 18+ (20+ recommended; required for bootstrap script automation)
- Express 4.x or 5.x
- npm or yarn
- An Auth0 account with a configured API (Resource Server)
- Auth0 CLI (for automatic setup):
npm install -g @auth0/auth0-cli
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