How to authenticate a user and send notifications to Jira from external app?

Petya Naumova

Hello, I've been struggling with the following: I want to connect an external app (Angular and NodeJS) to Jira, so the user is able to authenticate themselves and send a notification to Jira when he does a certain action in the external app. The notification should appear as a Jira issue.

Can you suggest to me how to do the initial user authentification - is using the user email and API key a good choice? Do I need anything besides email and key?

Thank you.

Earl McCutcheon

Hello @Petya Naumova ,

This will require a bit of custom development and my associate wrote up a really good explanation in the following thread from a user with a similar ask, and I believe the details provided will get you on the right track for your requirements:

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/Official-npm-module-for-JIRA-Rest-Api-s-wrapper-implementation/qaq-p/1217387

Particularly highlighting the "Connect frameworks and tools" documentation noting:

These frameworks handle tasks like JWT authentication and signing, persistence of host details, installation and uninstallation callbacks, and serving the app descriptor, so you don't have to worry about these details.

Hope this helps you get on the right track.

Regards,
Earl