How to refresh access and identity tokens with implicit grant type

[colehendo]

** Which Category is your question related to? **

Refreshing access and identity tokens after authenticating through Cognito with Implicit Grant type using Google

** What AWS Services are you utilizing? **

Cognito with Implicit Grant type

** Provide additional details e.g. code snippets **

I have found no way to refresh the access and identity tokens provided by authenticating using Cognito with an Implicit Grant type while using a Google. I know the Authorization Code Grant type returns a refresh token, but that is not an option for me as I am building an SPA. I was hoping either there was a way to get a refresh token or to do a silent refresh with Implicit Grant type as I have found none yet. Having my users log in every hour is fairly annoying for them.

[sammartinez]

@colehendo Can you share your package.json with us? Just want to see what version of amplify you are using and what framework

[colehendo]

I am only using auth and core. Here are the versions:

"@aws-amplify/auth": "^1.2.28"
"@aws-amplify/core": "^1.0.29"

[manueliglesias]

Hi @colehendo

As of today, Cognito doesn't support silent auth. We'll be talking to the Cognito team about this feature request

[niklr]

Can you provide some sort of timeline when this is gonna happen @manueliglesias ? Thanks!

[tannerabread]

Closing this in favor of the duplicate #1218 that has a lot more context. If you think this issue was closed in error and was not a duplicate please let me know and we can discuss here.

Thank you!