Json web token does not expire
express-jwt, jwt, node.js
Solution
I found myself having the same problem when not providing an object as the first argument to `jwt.sign`, e.g. `jwt.sign('testuser', secret.secretToken, { expiresIn: '1h' });`.
This wrong usage of `jwt.sign` does work even though it is wrong, it just ignores the provided settings. https://github.com/auth0/node-jsonwebtoken/issues/64
Be sure to provide an object as first argument, like `jwt.sign({user: 'testuser'}, secret.secretToken, { expiresIn: '1h' });`
Update: There have been reported problems with usage of non standard javascript objects, such as from mongoose. Version 5.5.2 has a fix for this. More details here. Thanks @gugol for the notice. Make sure you pass a plain object with the properties you need, not a direct database object or similar.
Problem
I just implemented a json web token authentication, on my backend I send the token which is created by `jsonwebtoken` to the client as following: ``` var token = jwt.sign(user, secret.secretToken, { expiresInMinutes: 1 }); return res.json({ token: token }); ``` and on the client side I simply store this token to the SessionStorage. The thing is that the token does not expire after a minute, am I missing something? EDIT: I implemented same thing which is shown in this post.