jwt-auth: jwt malformed

Okay so I’m running laravel 5.2 and trying to generate a token that is valid on a socket.io server. However I seem to fail horrible at this, (not sure if this is a problem with me or this library) so some help would be much appreciated!

On my laravel I have some simple lines:

$user = App\User::find(1);
$token = JWTAuth::fromUser($user);

And then I use this token when making the socket io connection from the client:

var socket = io.connect('http://localhost:8085', {
    'query': 'token={{$token}}'
});

Simple socketio server:

var io = require('socket.io')();
var socketioJwt   = require("socketio-jwt");

io.use(socketioJwt.authorize({
    secret: 'supersecretkey',
    handshake: true
}));

io.on('connection', function(socket){
    console.log('connected!');
});

io.listen(8085);
console.log('socketio-server listening on *:8085');

However this gives me:

{
    message: "invalid signature", 
    code: "invalid_token", 
    type: "UnauthorizedError"
}

So I instead of using socketio-jwt library, I also tried interfacing it directly against jsonwebsocket which gives me invalid signature as well.

I use the same key on both places and my jwt.php config file looks like this:

<?php
return [
    'secret' => 'supersecretkey',
    'ttl' => 60,
    'refresh_ttl' => 20160,
    'algo' => 'HS256',
    'user' => 'App\User',
    'identifier' => 'id',
    'required_claims' => ['iat', 'exp', 'nbf', 'sub', 'jti'],
    'blacklist_enabled' => env('JWT_BLACKLIST_ENABLED', true),
    'providers' => [
        'user' => 'Tymon\JWTAuth\Providers\User\EloquentUserAdapter',
        'jwt' => 'Tymon\JWTAuth\Providers\JWT\NamshiAdapter',
        'auth' => 'Tymon\JWTAuth\Providers\Auth\IlluminateAuthAdapter',
        'storage' => 'Tymon\JWTAuth\Providers\Storage\IlluminateCacheAdapter'
    ]
];

So what am I missing? I also tried to decode the jwt on the https://jwt.io/ website, but that doesn’t work either. Help is very much appreciated!