Authentication

This section explains how to use the auth method to set Basic Auth header based on username and password as well as JWT token.

Let’s set Basic Auth header first

describe('cookies', () => {
  it('should parse cookies properly for response', async () => {
    const res = await request(expressApp).get('/cookie');

    expect(res).toMatchObject({
      headers: {
        'set-cookie': [
          'name=express; Path=/',
          'name=I%20love%20my%20mom!; Path=/; HttpOnly'
        ]
      },
      cookies: {
        name: {
          httpOnly: true,
          path: '/',
          value: 'I love my mom!'
        }
      }
    });
  });

  it('should parse cookies properly for request', async () => {
    const res = await request(expressApp)
      .get('/cookie')
      .cookie('name', 'fastify');

    expect(res).toMatchObject({
      body: {
        reqHeaders: {
          cookie: 'name=fastify'
        }
      },
      cookies: {
        name: {
          httpOnly: true,
          path: '/',
          value: 'I love my mom!'
        }
      }
    });
  });
});

Let’s see how it works with JWT token.

it('should set bearer token', async () => {
  const res = await request(expressApp).get('/cookie').auth('token');

  expect(res).toMatchObject({
    body: {
      reqHeaders: {
        authorization: 'Bearer token'
      }
    }
  });
});

As you can see, it’s dead simple and resembles supertest-API.