Good afternoon I'm using React with Node. Using routes within react. I'm using the docs on the link ...

M/\X

04/27/2022, 2:02 PM

Good afternoon I'm using React with Node. Using routes within react. I'm using the docs on the link below to set up a check so that on the base root of the website (/) you see a different page depending on whether you're logged in or not. Problem is that I don't want to wrap all my routes in

<EmailPasswordAuth requireAuth={false}>

but if I don't use this tag on App (where the routes are) then

useSessionContext()

always reports false. Where am I going wrong? https://supertokens.com/docs/emailpassword/common-customizations/sessions/checking-session-front-end

rp_st

04/27/2022, 2:03 PM

Hey!

M/\X

04/27/2022, 2:03 PM

Hi there again @rp_st !

rp_st

04/27/2022, 2:03 PM

So in order to use the session context function, you need to wrap your component with the auth wrapper

rp_st

04/27/2022, 2:03 PM

If you don’t want to do that, any other way to know if a user is logged in is to use await Session.doesSessionExist()

M/\X

04/27/2022, 2:04 PM

Let me give that a shot now 👍

rp_st

04/27/2022, 2:04 PM

But u will have to use it in a useEffect or something

rp_st

04/27/2022, 2:04 PM

Cause u need to await it

M/\X

04/27/2022, 2:04 PM

Good point

M/\X

04/27/2022, 3:03 PM

hmm

M/\X

04/27/2022, 3:03 PM

I'm having real trouble getting this to work

M/\X

04/27/2022, 3:03 PM

M/\X

04/27/2022, 3:03 PM

I tried to copy the video from the docs, but I'm just getting a ton of errors in the console about not using useEffect proerly

rp_st

04/27/2022, 3:56 PM

Oh right yea. You should google how to use async functions in useEffect

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