Using anycable-client to auto-refresh tokens

May 10, 2022

This episode continues exploring our token-based authentication and the token expiration problem in particular. To solve it, we switch to AnyCable JS client, which provides a token refreshing mechanism out-of-the-box.

The migration process involves some JavaScript debugging and re-implementing @hotwired/turbo-rails functionality.

Links:

• anycable-client
• Introducing JavaScript and TypeScript client for AnyCable
• AnyCable JWT identification