Getting Started

In order to add Sanic JWT, all you need to do is initialize an instance of sanic_jwt.Initialize with your Sanic() instance, and an authentication function.

from sanic_jwt import Initialize

async def authenticate(request):
    return dict(user_id='some_id')

app = Sanic()
Initialize(app, authenticate=authenticate)

What is an authentication function? We’ll get into it later, but for now all you need to know is that it is a function you control that takes a request and decides if there is a valid user or not. This gives you the flexibility to roll with whatever user management system you want.

After initialization, you now will have a couple endpoints at your disposal:

• /auth
• /auth/verify

To obtain a token, just send a POST call to the /auth endpoint:

curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/auth

You should get back a bit of JSON like this:

{
    "access_token": "<JWT>"
}

Want to check to make sure it is valid?

curl -X GET -H "Authorization: Bearer <JWT>" http://localhost:8000/auth/verify

Your response should be this:

{
    "valid": true
}

You now have a working authentication system. Woohoo!