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.
Refresh session
Method parameters
Configuration object
Additional configuration.
session_duration_minutes int
import React, { useEffect } from 'react';
import { useStytch } from '@stytch/react';
export const RefreshSession = () => {
const stytch = useStytch();
useEffect(() => {
const refresh = () => {
if (stytch.session.getSync()) {
stytch.session.authenticate({
session_duration_minutes: 60,
});
}
};
// Refresh session every 50 minutes
let interval = setInterval(refresh, 3000000);
return () => clearInterval(interval);
}, [stytch]);
return <></>;
};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": {...},
}