docs(expo): Add guide for accessing Clerk outside components in Expo #2102
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Hey, here’s your docs preview: https://clerk.com/docs/pr/2102 |
wobsoriano
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| import axios from 'axios' | ||
| import { getClerkInstance } from '@clerk/clerk-expo' | ||
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| export async function fetchFoo() { | ||
| try { | ||
| const data = await axios.get('/api/foo') | ||
| return data | ||
| } catch (error) { | ||
| if (axios.isAxiosError(error) && error.response) { | ||
| throw new Error(`API Error: ${error.response.status} ${error.response.statusText}`) | ||
| } | ||
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| throw new Error('Unknown error') | ||
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| } | ||
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| // Intercept requests and modify them to include the current session token | ||
| axios.interceptors.request.use(async (config) => { | ||
| const clerkInstance = getClerkInstance() | ||
| // Use `getToken()` to get the current session token | ||
| const token = await clerkInstance.session?.getToken() | ||
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| if (token) { | ||
| // Include the session token as a Bearer token in the Authorization header | ||
| config.headers.Authorization = `Bearer ${token}` | ||
| } | ||
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| return config | ||
| }) |
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Axios interceptors is a very common pattern among axios devs for handling auth tokens
See https://github.com/orgs/clerk/discussions/1751#discussioncomment-8907251
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Demo repo: https://github.com/wobsoriano/clerk-docs-2102
What does this solve?
getClerkInstance()available since last year, but it's not documented and is hard for customers to find.What changed?
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