Consumer Authentication

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Mobile SDKs

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React Native SDK reference

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Session Management

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Authenticate Session

Authenticate session

Wraps Stytch's Authenticate Session endpoint and validates that the session issued to the user is still valid. The SDK will invoke this method automatically in the background. You probably won't need to call this method directly. It's recommended to use session.getSync and session.onChange instead.


Method parameters


Configurationobject

Additional configuration.

session_duration_minutesint
import { useEffect } from 'react';
import { useStytch } from '@stytch/react-native';

export const AuthenticateSession = () => {
  const stytch = useStytch();

  useEffect(() => {
    const authenticate = () => {
      if (stytch.session.getSync()) {
        stytch.session.authenticate({
          session_duration_minutes: 60,
        });
      }
    };
    // Refresh session every 50 minutes
    let interval = setInterval(authenticate, 3000000);
    return () => clearInterval(interval);
  }, [stytch]);

  return null;
};

RESPONSE

200
{
    "status_code": 200,
    "request_id": "request-id-test-b05c992f-ebdc-489d-a754-c7e70ba13141",
    "session": {
      "attributes": {
        "ip_address": "203.0.113.1",
        "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36"
      },
      "authentication_factors": [
        {
          "delivery_method": "email",
          "email_factor": {
            "email_address": "sandbox@stytch.com",
            "email_id": "email-test-81bf03a8-86e1-4d95-bd44-bb3495224953"
          },
          "last_authenticated_at": "2021-08-09T07:41:52Z",
          "created_at": "2021-08-09T07:41:52Z",
          "updated_at": "2021-08-09T07:41:52Z",
          "type": "magic_link"
        }
      ],
      "custom_claims": {
        "claim1": "value1",
        "claim2": "value2",
      },
      "expires_at": "2021-08-10T07:41:52Z",
      "last_accessed_at": "2021-08-09T07:41:52Z",
      "session_id": "session-test-fe6c042b-6286-479f-8a4f-b046a6c46509",
      "started_at": "2021-08-09T07:41:52Z",
      "user_id": "user-test-16d9ba61-97a1-4ba4-9720-b03761dc50c6",
    },
    "session_jwt": "example_jwt"
    "session_token": "mZAYn5aLEqKUlZ_Ad9U_fWr38GaAQ1oFAhT8ds245v7Q"
    "user": {...},
  }