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Giova.panasiti
Giova.panasiti

Reputation: 447

Best practice for a flutter app with authentication and some fetch from a REST API

I'm developing a quite big smartphone app and I chose to use flutter. I've only played around to and made some small and easy app. Now I'm facing the real world and things are becoming pretty difficult.

I come from react so I thought the best way to implement it was using redux with this Boilerplate but I really can't even fetch and display anything.

My goal: User login -> I save the token in the store and then use it for any request i need to make.

Do you know any other way to achieve my goal?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5863

Answers (1)

Siavash
Siavash

Reputation: 3598

You can use JWT and create a token in the server when the user logins for the first time. after that you can save that token on device (and also the server) and add it to the http requests you do in future calls:

Future<http.Response> fetchPost() {
  return http.get(
    'https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1',
    // Send authorization headers to your backend
    headers: {HttpHeaders.authorizationHeader: "Basic your_api_token_here"},
  );
}

You'll be able to log the user in, in future app runs with the token you have in your db.

more about the request here: https://flutter.io/cookbook/networking/authenticated-requests/

Upvotes: 3

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