jwt-auth

this is a service that authenticates the API calls against the jsonapi server

it also does some specific work for the application it is loosely tight (like for example securing some api calls)

config

this service uses https://www.npmjs.com/package/config for managing configuration

by default you will find in the ./config/default.js that jsonApiServer is expected to be on the localhost:3000

you can change it by providing a config file like production.js and spinning up the server like

NODE_ENV=lan node index.js 

to download the code and spin the server

1. copy contents of https://github.com/jedrula-communications/jwt-auth/blob/master/bin/build to a file on the server like build_jwt-auth

2. sh build_jwt-auth

3. cd jwt-auth-master

4. spin it

node index.js

4.1. ... as a service

sudo forever-service install jwt-auth-master --script index.js -e "NODE_ENV=lan"
sudo service jwt-auth-master start

more on that here