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Reputation: 693

React get Laravel Auth User

I just did the Auth system through Laravel and I'm facing a problem : how to check in ReactJS the logged user? I need to get his ID to check if this user can modify the page. I don't know where to go at all.

Any tips would be welcome!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3395

Answers (1)

Djellal Mohamed Aniss
Djellal Mohamed Aniss

Reputation: 1733

you can't use the default authentication (using sessions) with a react app.

what you need is a system that creates an authentication token ( search for JWT or Laravel passport ) which identifies users, and since the HTTP protocol is stateless, in each request you must send that token to you backend service / API.

you can of course add a value representing the authentication ( true if you got a valid token ) to your global state just for UI or routing purpose.

check this medium article where the author explains how to create a token based auth with laravel using JWT.

you can also search about REST and oauth for more information.

Upvotes: 1

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