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Alok Mali
Alok Mali

Reputation: 2881

How to get JWT cookie in reactjs which is send by the server

I am using reactjs on the client-side. The server is sending a cookie after authentication.

So my question is that How to get JWT cookie in react-js which is send by the server and how to manage a token on behalf of this cookie

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2654

Answers (1)

Harry Chang
Harry Chang

Reputation: 389

Typically, there will be an API for client-side to get the data of the current user, for instance, send a GET request to /api/me to get the user data { username: 'harry830622', /* email, gender, etc. */ }.

In your scenario, the JWT is in the cookie, so it will be sent to the server in every request made by the browser automatically. When the server receive the request, it will first verify the JWT in the cookie, if the JWT is correct, respond with the data, otherwise, throw an error of 401 UNAUTHORIZED.

Therefore, to check if a user is logined or not, simply send a GET request to the API to see if the response has valid data.

Upvotes: 2

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