node-jwt | JWT auth service with refresh using Node | Runtime Evironment library

I am having an issue with validating the JWT on the server side end of my node/express app. The token is being generated in Identity Server in an asp.net core app. The token that is generated is an RS256 token type, which means a private key and public key need to be generated on creation in the Identity Server. What that means for me -

On the client side (Angular) I'm passing in the Bearer token on all requests once signed in. I need to authenticate that token somehow. The way to do that with a RS256 token type is to make sure the public key matches. I'm using

const jwt2 = require('jwt-simple');

For my JWT validation.

The issue is the secret, here is the jwt-simple documentation jwt-simple link. If I make the third value in decode false it works, because it's ignoring the secret/cert that is required.

I'm getting this error -

Error: error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line

I'm making this validation in the middleware so all endpoints will hit it. I saw this issue - SO Similar Issue and ran those same commands. I'm still getting the error because the token doesn't really have anything to do with the certs because I'm getting it from the Identity Server project. So I need to retrieve the cert public key from that project.

How would I be able to send that cert in the token or retrieve that valid cert somehow? Hopefully, this made some sense. Any help would be appreciated.

v1 - (using the self signed server.crt as the cert and getting this error)

Error: Signature verification failed

App.js

I'm using passport-jwt to authenticate some routes and I'm creating my jwts with node-jwt-simple/jwt-simple but facing some difficulties cause it looks like my passport-jwt authenticate middleware is not being called at all.

Here is my

passport-jwt-strategy