Consumer Authentication

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Mobile SDKs

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React Native SDK reference

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Passkeys & WebAuthn

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Authenticate

Authenticate

Wraps Stytch's authenticate_start and authenticate WebAuthn endpoints, the Credential Manager API on Android and the CredentialProvider API on iOS. Call this method to authenticate a user using an existing WebAuthn registration in Stytch.

Call webauthn.authenticate inside an event callback triggered by a user gesture.

You can listen for successful user updates anywhere in the codebase with the stytch.user.onChange() method or useStytchUser() hook if you are using React.

Method parameters

domain* string
is_passkey boolean
session_duration_minutes int
import React, { useCallback } from 'react';
import { Text, TouchableOpacity, View } from 'react-native';
import { useStytch } from '@stytch/react-native';

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

  const trigger = useCallback(() => {
    stytch.webauthn.authenticate({
      domain: 'example.com',
      is_passkey: true,
      session_duration_minutes: 60,
    });
  }, [stytch]);

  return (
    <View>
      <TouchableOpacity onPress={trigger}>
        <Text>Authenticate WebAuthn Registration</Text>
      </TouchableOpacity>
    </View>
  );
};

RESPONSE

200
{
  "status_code": 200,
  "request_id": "request-id-test-b05c992f-ebdc-489d-a754-c7e70ba13141",
  "session": null
  "session_jwt": "",
  "session_token": "",
  "user": {...},
  "user_id": "user-test-16d9ba61-97a1-4ba4-9720-b03761dc50c6",
  "webauthn_registration_id": "webauthn-registration-test-5c44cc6a-8af7-48d6-8da7-ea821342f5a6",
}