JWTs Authentication with Go, echo, and GraphQL

A simple tutorial of JWT authentication using Go, echo, and GraphQL

I’ve introduced how to build Go API with GraphQL in the previous post. This post will highlight an authentication of GraphQL API.

Example Repo

Here is a link to the codebase in full for reference:

manakuro/golang-graphql-authentication

Pre-requisites

To quickly start off, you can set up GraphQL API by following the post:

Go API with echo, gorm, and GraphQL

In case you are not familiar with JWTs, you can check the introduction before starting.

Dependencies

jwt-go allow us to use JWTs in Go. Then install:

go get github.com/dgrijalva/jwt-go