Tool to forge barong JWT to be used in any service intended to run in the Barong ecosystem. It is very useful in developement mode to develop and test a microservice without the need of deploying any dependency of the stack.

JWT_PRIVATE_KEY_PATH is used to specify JWT private key path, otherwise config/rsa-key would be created and used.

# Create the secret key file if it doesn't exist
barong-jwt

# Configure barong to use a specific secret file
export JWT_PRIVATE_KEY_PATH=config/rsa-key

# Run barong server
rails s

From another terminal tab:

JWT=$(barong-jwt --uid IDBD12DEB15B)
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ${JWT}" localhost:3000/api/v2/resource/users/me

Barong JWT is released under the terms of the Apache License 2.0.

It's used in openware cryptocurrency exchange software stack, and more!