ExtendExpanded returns an instance of jwt.MapClaims which you can freely extend with your own custom fields.

ExtendStandard returns an instance of jwt.MapClaims which you can freely extend with your own custom fields.

ExtractCustom takes in a generic claims map that can have any values set and attempts to pull out whatever custom struct you should have previously used to create the claims originally.

ExtractJWT will attempt to extract the JWT value and retrieve the map claims from an events.APIGatewayProxyRequest object.

ExtractStandard accepts a generic claims map that can have any values set and attempts to pull out a standard jwt.StandardClaims object from the claims map.

Sign accepts a final set of claims, either jwt.StandardClaims, ExpandedClaims, or something entirely custom that you have created yourself.

VerifyJWT accepts the user JWT from the Authorization header and returns the MapClaims or nil and an error set.