Error: Your client ID is missing

Questions OAuth/OIDC
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Hi all, I am currently working my way through this blog post/tutorial for my studies:

and i am trapped around Build a Simple REST API with Node and OAuth 2.0 | Okta Developer

I have added all the needed vars in my .env file. However, i still get this error trying to run at the end of that section:

 throw new ConfigurationValidationError('Your client ID is missing. ' + copyCredentialsMessage);
^
 Error: Your client ID is missing. You can copy it from the Okta Developer Console in the details for the 
Application you created. Follow these instructions to find it: https://bit.ly/finding-okta-app-credentials

I know my .env file loads. If i delete ISSUER or SCOPE, i get errors that they no longer exist. I am a student and new to this process and was hoping maybe it was a simple solution I am overlooking.

Someone also commented with the same issue on the blog post, so it seems it may not be an uncommon issue.

Thanks so much!

Edited to add full stacktrace:

PATH_TO_PROJECT/node_modules/@okta/configuration-validation/dist/lib.js:66
throw new ConfigurationValidationError('Your client ID is missing. ' + copyCredentialsMessage);
^

Error: Your client ID is missing. You can copy it from the Okta Developer Console in the details for the Application you created. Follow these instructions to find it: https://bit.ly/finding-okta-app-credentials
at new ConfigurationValidationError (PATH_TO_PROJECT/node_modules/@okta/configuration-validation/dist/lib.js:27:141)
at configUtil.assertClientId (PATH_TO_PROJECT/node_modules/@okta/configuration-validation/dist/lib.js:66:11)
at new OktaJwtVerifier (PATH_TO_PROJECT/node_modules/@okta/jwt-verifier/lib.js:25:5)
at Object.<anonymous> (PATH_TO_PROJECT/auth.js:4:25)
at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:688:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:699:10)
at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:598:32)
at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:537:12)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:529:3)
at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:636:17)
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Do you have a stacktrace you can include?

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Hi there, thanks for replying - I updated my original post to include the stack trace.

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Try adding the clientId to the OktaJwtVerifier constructor:

const oktaJwtVerifier = new OktaJwtVerifier({ 
    issuer: process.env.ISSUER,
    clientId: process.env.CLIENT_ID
})

We will get someone to update the post!

Let us know if that doesn’t fix your issue!

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That simple swap did the trick - thank you for the quick help!

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This change does do the trick. However the documentation on the GitHub for the OktaJWTVerifier does not show the proper configuration. Furthermore the documentation there specifically shows wrong configuration:

const verifier = new OktaJwtVerifier({
issuer: ISSUER,
assertClaims: {
cid: ‘{clientId}’
}
});

Which also blows up because the clientId is specified a) in the wrong place and b) withthe wrong label.

Would you please fix the documentation?

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