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Generating JSON Web Tokens

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Generating JSON Web Tokens

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- [Instructor] Okay, so the last thing we're going to want to do here is generate a JSON Web Token with all of this information, except for the passwordHash that we're going to basically send back to the client so that they can store it and use it. So what that's going to look like, we're going to use the jwt.sign method from the JSON Web Token package we installed. And basically what we need to do is pass this an argument containing all of the data we want to include in the web token. So we're going to want to include the user's ID in the database, which is the insertedId thing we just defined there. We're going to send back their email, their info, which again is going to be startingInfo and we're going to send back isVerified, which is going to be false. Okay? So that's the first argument is the data we want to include in the token. The second argument here is going to be the JSON Web Token secret. And basically…

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