Wasp•2mo ago

Redirect to user to same page after login

I would like to redirect users to same page they are on, after logging in. How is this possible?

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Hi @p4j4r5. I'm kapa.ai, your friendly support bot. I will try to answer your question by searching through the knowledge base. :wave: ---------------------- Unfortunately, the knowledge sources do not contain enough information to provide a complete solution for redirecting users to the same page they were on after logging in. However, I can offer some insights based on the available information: Currently, Wasp does not have built-in functionality to automatically redirect users to their previous page after login. The default behavior is to redirect to a static URL specified by the onAuthSucceededRedirectTo field in the auth configuration. There is an open GitHub issue discussing this feature request: Allow specifying where to redirect after successful login/signup. The Wasp team is aware of this need and may implement it in the future. As a workaround, a community member suggested using localStorage to store the previous URL before redirecting to the login page. After successful login, you could retrieve this URL and manually redirect the user. This approach would require custom implementation and is not a built-in feature of Wasp. For now, if you need this functionality, you might have to implement a custom solution. Keep an eye on future Wasp updates, as the team has mentioned they plan to improve "seamless" login redirects in the future. Discord support thread mentions this issue and confirms that currently, there's no built-in way to achieve this seamlessly. If you need more specific guidance, you may want to reach out to the Wasp community on their Discord channel or GitHub for more up-to-date information or potential workarounds. ---------------------- Note: you can ask me a follow up question by @ mentioning me again :speech_balloon: ---------------------- Sorry @p4j4r5, I seem to be having a bit of trouble. Don't worry though, I've pinged my support and they will try to fix me up! :technologist: Perhaps try again in 15mins?

p4j4r5OP•2mo ago

onAuthSucceededRedirectTo is static defintion in main.wasp file. The url they are on , isn't aware until they click login from that URL. These Url's are different urls that they find in social websites

miho•2mo ago

Related issue: https://github.com/wasp-lang/wasp/issues/1772 I'd suggest keeping track of current page in localStorage and doing a redirect on the onAuthSuceeded page for now 🙂

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p4j4r5OP•2mo ago

@kapa.ai Explain me how can I use 'onAuthSuceeded' to direct user to url that is stored in localstorage

kapa.ai•2mo ago

Let me check the knowledge base for you again. One moment! :books:

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kapa.ai•2mo ago

---------------------- Based on the knowledge sources provided, there isn't a direct way to use 'onAuthSucceeded' to redirect users to a URL stored in localStorage within Wasp's built-in authentication system. However, I can suggest a workaround that combines Wasp's authentication features with custom client-side code to achieve what you're looking for. Here's a step-by-step approach you could take: 1. Instead of using authRequired: true in your Wasp file, you can use the useAuth hook in your React components. This gives you more control over the authentication flow. 2. Before redirecting to the login page, save the current URL to localStorage. 3. In your login component, after a successful authentication, retrieve the URL from localStorage and use it for redirection. Here's a rough outline of how you might implement this:

import { useAuth } from '@wasp/auth'
import { Redirect } from 'react-router-dom'

const ProtectedPage = () => {
  const { data: user, isLoading, error } = useAuth()

  if (isLoading) return 'Loading...'
  if (error) return 'Error: ' + error

  if (!user) {
    // Save current URL to localStorage before redirecting
    localStorage.setItem('redirectUrl', window.location.pathname + window.location.search)
    return <Redirect to="/login" />
  }

  // User is authenticated, render the protected content
  return <div>Protected content here</div>
}

const LoginPage = () => {
  const { login } = useAuth()

  const handleLogin = async (credentials) => {
    try {
      await login(credentials)
      // After successful login, redirect to the stored URL or a default route
      const redirectUrl = localStorage.getItem('redirectUrl') || '/'
      localStorage.removeItem('redirectUrl') // Clean up
      window.location.href = redirectUrl
    } catch (error) {
      // Handle login error
    }
  }

  // Render login form
}

import { useAuth } from '@wasp/auth'
import { Redirect } from 'react-router-dom'

const ProtectedPage = () => {
  const { data: user, isLoading, error } = useAuth()

  if (isLoading) return 'Loading...'
  if (error) return 'Error: ' + error

  if (!user) {
    // Save current URL to localStorage before redirecting
    localStorage.setItem('redirectUrl', window.location.pathname + window.location.search)
    return <Redirect to="/login" />
  }

  // User is authenticated, render the protected content
  return <div>Protected content here</div>
}

const LoginPage = () => {
  const { login } = useAuth()

  const handleLogin = async (credentials) => {
    try {
      await login(credentials)
      // After successful login, redirect to the stored URL or a default route
      const redirectUrl = localStorage.getItem('redirectUrl') || '/'
      localStorage.removeItem('redirectUrl') // Clean up
      window.location.href = redirectUrl
    } catch (error) {
      // Handle login error
    }
  }

  // Render login form
}

This approach is based on the suggestion from the Discord support thread where a similar workaround was proposed. Remember that this is a client-side solution and may not be suitable for all security requirements. Also, note that this is not a built-in feature of Wasp, but rather a custom implementation using Wasp's authentication hooks. For future updates on this feature, you might want to follow the GitHub issue discussing improvements to login redirects: Allow specifying where to redirect after successful login/signup. ---------------------- Note: you can ask me a follow up question by @ mentioning me again :speech_balloon: ---------------------- Sorry @p4j4r5, I seem to be having a bit of trouble. Don't worry though, I've pinged my support and they will try to fix me up! :technologist: Perhaps try again in 15mins?

p4j4r5OP•2mo ago

This means I need to create custom loginPage and not be able to use LoginForm react component that comes with OpenSaas Managed to solve this by creating a new page named userOnboarding which checks for redirect url in localstorage and navigates user appropriately.


const UserOnBoardingPage: React.FC<UserOnBoardingPageProps> = ({ user }) => {
    const redirectUrl = localStorage.getItem('redirectUrl');
    React.useEffect(() => {
        if (redirectUrl) {
            window.location.href = redirectUrl;
        } else {
            window.location.href = '/user/home';
        }
    }, [redirectUrl]);

    return (
        <DefaultLayout user={user}>
            <div className='flex flex-col gap-10'>
                <div className="text-center text-gray-500 py-10">Redirecting...</div>
            </div>
        </DefaultLayout>
    );
};

export default UserOnBoardingPage;

And this page is now hooked up in main.wasp as below onAuthSucceededRedirectTo: "/user/onboarding",

genyus•2mo ago

This will work, but by setting window.location, you'll force a full page reload and your onboarding page will also be visible in the browser history, which might not be desirable. A better way to redirect the user is useNavigate():

import { useNavigate } from 'react-router-dom';

const UserOnBoardingPage: React.FC<UserOnBoardingPageProps> = ({ user }) => {
  const navigate = useNavigate();
  const redirectUrl = localStorage.getItem('redirectUrl') ?? '/user/home';

  React.useEffect(() => {
    navigate(redirectUrl, { replace: true});
  }, [redirectUrl, navigate]);

  return (
    <DefaultLayout user={user}>
      <div className='flex flex-col gap-10'>
        <div className="text-center text-gray-500 py-10">Redirecting...</div>
      </div>
    </DefaultLayout>
  );
};

import { useNavigate } from 'react-router-dom';

const UserOnBoardingPage: React.FC<UserOnBoardingPageProps> = ({ user }) => {
  const navigate = useNavigate();
  const redirectUrl = localStorage.getItem('redirectUrl') ?? '/user/home';

  React.useEffect(() => {
    navigate(redirectUrl, { replace: true});
  }, [redirectUrl, navigate]);

  return (
    <DefaultLayout user={user}>
      <div className='flex flex-col gap-10'>
        <div className="text-center text-gray-500 py-10">Redirecting...</div>
      </div>
    </DefaultLayout>
  );
};

miho•2mo ago

Great response, thank you @genyus

p4j4r5OP•2mo ago

Thank @genyus I will refactor the code to use react-router-dom method

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