Auth0 with refresh tokens and expo-auth-session

App.tsx

import { SafeAreaProvider } from 'react-native-safe-area-context';
import * as AuthSession from 'expo-auth-session';
import { RefreshTokenRequestConfig, TokenResponse, TokenResponseConfig } from 'expo-auth-session';
import jwtDecode from 'jwt-decode';
import { useEffect, useState } from 'react';
import { Alert, Platform, Text, TouchableOpacity } from 'react-native';
import { useAsyncStorage } from '@react-native-async-storage/async-storage';
import * as React from 'react'
import * as WebBrowser from 'expo-web-browser';


const auth0ClientId = "<client ID>";
const domain = "https://<tenant>.us.auth0.com"
const authorizationEndpoint = `${domain}/authorize`;
const tokenEndpoint = `${domain}/oauth/token`;
const useProxy = Platform.select({ web: false, default: true });
const redirectUri = AuthSession.makeRedirectUri({ useProxy });

// allows the web browser to close correctly when using universal login on mobile
WebBrowser.maybeCompleteAuthSession();


export default function App() {
    
    // storing our user token
    const [user, setUser] = useState({});
    
    // caching the token configuration, use secure storage in production app
    const { getItem: getCachedToken, setItem: setToken } = useAsyncStorage('jwtToken')
    
    // basic implementation, token response omitted because default auth flow is code.
    // do NOT use token response because this starts the implicit flow and we cannot get a refresh token
    const [request, result, promptAsync] = AuthSession.useAuthRequest(
        {
            redirectUri,
            clientId: auth0ClientId,
            scopes: ['openid', 'profile', 'offline_access'],
            extraParams: {
                audience: "<api audience>",
                access_type: "offline"
            },
        },
        { authorizationEndpoint }
    );

    // function for reading token from storage and refreshing it, called from useEffect
    const readTokenFromStorage = async () => {
        // get the cached token config
        const tokenString = await getCachedToken();
        const tokenConfig: TokenResponseConfig = JSON.parse(tokenString);
        if (tokenConfig) {
            // instantiate a new token response object which will allow us to refresh
            let tokenResponse = new TokenResponse(tokenConfig);
            
            // shouldRefresh checks the expiration and makes sure there is a refresh token
            if (tokenResponse.shouldRefresh()) {
                // All we need here is the clientID and refreshToken because the function handles setting our grant type based on 
                // the type of request configuration (refreshtokenrequestconfig in our example)
                const refreshConfig: RefreshTokenRequestConfig = { clientId: auth0ClientId, refreshToken: tokenConfig.refreshToken }
                const endpointConfig: Pick<AuthSession.DiscoveryDocument, "tokenEndpoint"> = { tokenEndpoint }
                
                // pass our refresh token and get a new access token and new refresh token
                tokenResponse = await tokenResponse.refreshAsync(refreshConfig, endpointConfig);
            }
            // cache the token for next time
            setToken(JSON.stringify(tokenResponse.getRequestConfig()));
            
            // decode the jwt for getting profile information
            const decoded = jwtDecode(tokenResponse.accessToken);
            // storing token in state
            setUser({ jwtToken: tokenResponse.accessToken, decoded })
        }
    };

    useEffect(() => {
        
        // read the refresh token from cache if we have one
        readTokenFromStorage()
        
        // boilerplate for promptasync example from expo
        if (result) {
            if (result.error) {
                Alert.alert(
                    'Authentication error',
                    result.params.error_description || 'something went wrong'
                );
                return;
            }
            if (result.type === 'success') {
                
                // we are using auth code flow, so get the response auth code
                const code = result.params.code;
                if (code) {
                    
                    // function for retrieving the access token and refresh token from our code
                    const getToken = async () => {
                        const codeRes: TokenResponse = await AuthSession.exchangeCodeAsync(
                            {
                                code,
                                redirectUri,
                                clientId: auth0ClientId,
                                extraParams: {
                                    code_verifier: request?.codeVerifier
                                }

                            },
                            { tokenEndpoint }
                        )
                        // get the config from our response to cache for later refresh
                        const tokenConfig: TokenResponseConfig = codeRes?.getRequestConfig();
                        
                        // get the access token to use
                        const jwtToken = tokenConfig.accessToken;
                        
                        // caching the token for later
                        setToken(JSON.stringify(tokenConfig));
                        
                        // decoding the token for getting user profile information
                        const decoded = jwtDecode(jwtToken);
                        setUser({ jwtToken, decoded })

                    }
                    getToken()
                }


            }
        }
    }, [result]);


    return (
        <SafeAreaProvider>
            <TouchableOpacity onPress={() => promptAsync({ useProxy })}>
                <Text>
                    Prompt
                </Text>
            </TouchableOpacity>
        </SafeAreaProvider>
    );
}

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