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ASP.NET Core 2 and Vue.js

You're reading from   ASP.NET Core 2 and Vue.js Full Stack Web Development with Vue, Vuex, and ASP.NET Core 2.0

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788839464
Length 556 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Stuart Ratcliffe Stuart Ratcliffe
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Preface 1. Understanding the Fundamentals 2. Setting Up the Development Environment FREE CHAPTER 3. Getting Started with the Project 4. Building Our First Vue.js Components 5. Building a Product Catalog 6. Building a Shopping Cart 7. User Registration and Authentication 8. Processing Payments 9. Building an Admin Panel 10. Deployment 11. Authentication and Refresh Token Flow 12. Server-Side Rendering 13. Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Setting the authentication state on app startup

At this point, you might think we are done. However, if you try refreshing the browser after navigating to the checkout page, you'll probably notice some unexpected behavior, as you'll be asked to log in again. There is also another far less obvious issue in that, after refreshing the page, the default axios headers will be cleared, including the bearer token we attached to the authorization header. Currently, the only way this header is set is after a successful login request—not something that the user should have to do after every page refresh. This also means that any future API requests would fail if those endpoints required authentication.

To fix the axios configuration issue, we need to check if the user is authenticated at the earliest point of the app startup, and set the authorization header if they are...

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