Restoring Login State with Angular 9 and auth0-spa-js

[ChrisFulstow]

Hi, I’ve been following the Angular quickstart to integrate Auth0 into my SPA app using the Google social connector. I can authenticate fine via Google and read the ID token claims. The problem is when I refresh the page, it doesn’t seem to be restoring the login state, and I need to login again. This behaviour seems to be the same in both my app and the Angular quickstart code.

How can I get my app to silently restore the user’s logged in state without prompting to re-authenticate?

[davidobrien1985]

duplicate of #197

[ChrisFulstow]

pingback https://community.auth0.com/t/restoring-login-state-with-angular-9-and-auth0-spa-js/47941/

[stevehobbsdev]

@ChrisFulstow You mentioned on the community issue that it works when you sign in with a username and password.

Auth0 has a limitation that, if you sign in with a social connection that uses Auth0's development keys, while also using the classic login experience, then silent authentication does not work. The SDK relies on silent authentication to log you back in on a page refresh.

If that's the case, are you able to try either:

• Specify your own application keys for the social providers you're using, or
• Use the new login experience

This should hopefully give you some more info

[ChrisFulstow]

@stevehobbsdev legend, that's fixed it, cheers Steve. I created my own Google client ID and secret.