How to decode the JWT encoded token payload on client-side in angular 5?

Question

I am getting one JWT encoded access token from my API in response. But I am not able to decode it and get it in JSON format. I tried using the angular2-jwt library for it, b

Answer 1

Try and use the JavaScript build in function atob(). Kind of like this:

atob(token.split('.')[1])

Note: The token is actually a string.

If you want to know why i split the token here you should check this website jwt.io.