On successful login, I’m embedding the user token in browser cookies and using router.push(‘/dashboard’) to take the user to his dashboard, but the ‘/dashboard’ page is not rendering any components unless I trigger a reload, on which all the components are rendered on the screen. Code block from /login page: Code block from /dashboard page: which on first returns a
Tag: authentication
How do I store the content of a variable for later use in other function (Javascript)
I have been trying to make a simple Register/Login system in JS. I tried to get the username/password values through user inputs and turn them into variables using a register() function. After that, however, these variables no longer hold any value, and I need them to compare with the new login username/password to check if they match in order to
Updating multiple components with HTTP only secure cookie
In many of my previous projects with auth I used localstorage or sessionstorage to store the JWT. Trying to use http only secure cookies, the only issue I am running into is trying to a seperate header component from a login component. For example, using localstorage or sessionstorage I would often have a header component that looks like: With the
Persist the login state in Next js using localstorage
I’m writing an authentication application in Next Js (v12.2.5). The application also uses React (v18.2.0). The problem is with persisting the authentication state. When the browser is refreshed, the login session is killed. Why is this happening even though I am getting and setting the token in the local storage. I would like to persist the login session to survive
ExpressJS Login Validation Error: comparePassword is not a function
In the folder backend/controllers I have an authController class which handles a POST request with an email and password and then looks for a user in the database with a matching email, then when it finds the user, it tries to verify the password invoking a method called comparePassword which is defined in the user class located in backend/models. The
React doesn’t refresh state in LocalStorage
how are you? Im doing a proof of concept using React and Cognito Hosted UI. I have this code here using react router dom: Im using S3 as a static website hosting, thats why i point to S3 cloudfront distribution apex. Then, in my App function (residex inside App.js file), i make this validation every times the user access, to
How to get a “fido-u2f’ attestation fromat
I tried to create a basic webauthn implementation, using the “Web Authentication API” to use user’s biometric. There’s one thing I don’t get and I didn’t find the answer online, it is: Why do I get an attestation with a format set to ‘packed’ by default instead of ‘fido-u2f’ ? what am I doing wrong ? Here’s the “challenge” I
Updating Next.js App Components After User Login
I have a static 2-page Next.js app that I want to integrate a user-based system with. I’ve decided to use Auth0 for authentication. My goal is to let a user see documents that they have saved on my app, similar to Grammarly, but I am not sure how the entire UI will conditionally change after the user has logged in.
Invalid token, state does not match – Auth0 Error Safari only
while using parseHash function in Auth0 library in safari I am getting error Same code is working fine in chrome. what can be possibly done to resolve this issue? Answer After lots of research and article exploration, I finally found a solution to this issue. As auth0 is unable to access state and nonce parameters which are required for forwarding
Next-Auth : How the registration is handled with a email + password credential provider?
How the registration is handled with a custom credential provider ( email + password)? Currently my […nextauth].js looks like this: All tutorials I found online only shows the login/signIn without details on how to implement registration Answer Registration is the process of registering the user, saving new users’ credentials into the database. It is independent of next-auth. You create a