Haha @ the github description.

Is it absolutely crucial to be on 1.7.5? I can downgrade fairly easily right? I'm on the v1.8.x branch

@julian It's a NodeJS app. Here is my code. It currently makes the site go down. (I don't know what I'm doing when it comes to the passport module.)

var express = require('express');
var router = express.Router();
var passport = require('passport');
var jwt = require('jsonwebtoken');
...

router.post(
    '/login',
    usermw.getUserByBodyUsername,
    function( req, res, next ) {
        // The shared login plugin for nodebb expects this JWT-encoded cookie.  Here we create it and pass it to the browser...
        var secretKey = "0281759e-3f80-11e8-b467-0ed5f89f718b";
        var payload = {
            id: req.user._id,
            firstName: req.user.first_name,
            lastName: req.user.last_name
            // iss: "https://www.rebuiltparishassociation.com/",
        };
        var jwtvalue = jwt.sign( payload, secretKey );
        res.cookie( 'login', jwtvalue, { /* maxAge: 900000, */  httpOnly: true });
    },
    passport.authenticate(
        'local',
        {
            successRedirect:'/about',
            failureRedirect:'/login',
            failureFlash: true,
            failureMessage: "Invalid username or password"
        }
    )
);

@pav Hi, I found this thread through a google search... I see you had success with the plugin, I could use some help understanding how to provide the cookie in the login response. Could you describe what you did in the server side code? It would be hugely appreciated.

What's involved in migrating data from another forum? Is there some standard JSON structure NodeBB can import? It's not a lot of data (like 20 threads) but the client still wants all old threads brought over.