Installation

From the Insomnia App

1. Go to Application > Preferences or click the cog icon (⚙️)
2. Navigate to the Plugins tab
3. Enter insomnia-plugin-jwt-generate-header
4. Click Install

From Insomnia Plugin Hub

1. Navigate to https://insomnia.rest/plugins/insomnia-plugin-jwt-generate-header
2. Click Install Plugin
3. Click Open
4. Once opened, click Install

Manual Install

1. Using a terminal, cd into your Insomnia plugins folder - See Insomnia Docs
2. Run git clone https://github.com/csailly/insominia-plugin-jwt-generate-header
3. cd into the insominia-plugin-jwt-generate-header folder
4. Run npn install

Usage

1. Set the environment variables :

{
  "jwt-generate-header": {
    "jwt-header-name": "x-my-jwt-header-name",
    "jwt-algorithm": "HS256",
    "jwt-expiresIn": "2m",
    "jwt-secret": "secret-xxxx"
  }
}

2. Add the payload in your header as plain json object

⚠️ Deprecated way : Add the payload in the header jwt-generate-header-payload

3. And voilà