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react-session-hook

Stateful sessions made easy

Overview

✔️ Simple API
✔️ Supports JWTs, string tokens and custom profiles
✔️ Supports handling multiple tokens (access-token, id-token, refresh-token)
✔️ Automatic logout and periodic refresh functions
✔️ Customisable persistent storage
✔️ Global login and logout events across tabs
✔️ Typescript typings and helper functions

Coming soon

📋Server-side rendering

Getting Started

Install react-session-hook using yarn:

yarn add react-session-hook

Or npm:

npm install --save react-session-hook

And within your react component:

import useSession, { UseSessionProvider } from 'react-session-hook';

const Component = () => {
  const session = useSession();

  const handleLogin = () => session.setSession({ token: newToken })
  const handleLogout = () => session.removeSession()

  if (session.isAuthenticated) {
    return (
      <div>
        <div>Logged in as: {session.profile.name}</div>
        <button onClick={handleLogout}>Logout</button>
      </div>
    )
  } else {
    return (
      <div>
        <div>You are logged out</div>
        <button onClick={handleLogin}>Login</button>
      </div>
    )
  }
}

export const App = () => (
  <UseSessionProvider>
    <Component />
  </UseSessionProvider>
)

Examples

See the examples folder

UseSessionProvider Options

{
  // The initial value for a token.
  // If undefined, they will default to the value in storage
  initialAccessToken: String (optional)
  initialIdToken: String (optional)
  initialRefreshToken String (optional)
  initialToken: String (optional)

  // The session profile.
  // If undefined, they will follow this logic
  //
  // If profileFn = True
  //    Set as the return value of profileFn
  // Else if jwt = True
  //    This will be set as the payload of the id Token or token
  initialProfile: Object (optional)

  // Attempt to parse profile and expiration date from the tokens
  jwt: Boolean (True)

  // Date object for the session expiration
  // If jwt = True
  //    Uses the 'exp' field in the accessToken or token body
  //    If there is no 'exp' field, this value is used
  // If no expiration is set the session will expire after 10 hours
  // Set value to null to explicitly set a session that never expires
  expiration: Date (optional)

  // Returned object passed to setSession
  // Notes:
  //   - will not be fired if isAuthenticated = false
  //   - will be fired before the refreshInterval
  //     if session expires before refresh period
  refreshFn: async (session) => Session (optional)

  // How often the refreshFn is called.
  refreshInterval: Number (1 * 60 * 60 * 1000) // 1 hours

  // Provide your own profile parsing logic. Useful for string tokens
  profileFn: (String) => Object | void

  // Defaults to cookie storage. See Storage for more information
  storage: Storage (optional)

  // See: Server-Side Rendering for more information
  req: Request (optional)

  // See: Global login/logout for more information
  globalLogin: Boolean (True)
  globalLogout: Boolean (True)
}

Returned values

{
  // The session tokens
  token: String | void
  accessToken: String | void
  idToken: String | void
  refreshToken: String | void

  // Manually update the session and storage
  setSession: Function (options) => void

  // Manually remove the session (will clear storage)
  removeSession: Function () => void

  profile: Object | void

  expiration: Date | null

  // If an accessToken or token exists and has not expired
  isAuthenticated: Boolean

  // See: Typescript section for more information
  isAuthenticatedGuard: () => Boolean

  // You can manually invoke the refreshFn
  refreshFn: Function (options) => options

  // If null, the refreshFn is paused.
  refreshInterval: Number | null
}

Features

Global login/logout

By default, browser tabs are kept in sync. If removeSession is called in one tab, it will be called in all tabs

If you wish to disable this behaviour set globalLogout and globalLogin to false in the options

Server Side Rendering

📋This feature is coming soon

If the req option is used, the package assumes you are performing Server Side Rendering. If you are using the default cookie storage, it will switch to using the request headers and an in-memory store.

If you are using a custom storage, the request will be passed to your store.

Typescript

react-session-hook was written in Typescript and includes typings out of the box.

It also includes the isAuthenticatedGuard function, which acts as a typeguard between an authenticated and authenticated session

import useSession from 'react-session-hook';

interface Profile {
  name: string
}

export default () => {
  // use the JWT values in storage
  const session = useSession<Profile>();

  if (session.isAuthenticatedGuard()) {
    // Typed as session.profile = Profile
    return <div>Logged in as: {session.profile.name}</div>
  } else {
    // Typed as session.profile = null
    return <div>You are logged out</div>
  }
}

Storage

By defaut, your session tokens will be stored as seperate cookies. You can overwrite this by providing custom storage functions in the useSession options

See the cookies storage functions for more information

Misc

The setSesson function can also be used to update some of the options. You can update the refreshFn with setSession({ refreshFn }) or disable the refresh with setSession({ refreshInterval: null })