bobfp

bobfp

Hi everyone,

I’m migrating a Magic Link authentication flow from Phoenix LiveView to a SolidJS SPA using Ash TypeScript, and I’m stuck on retrieving the authentication token.

Background

  • Using AshAuthentication’s built-in magic link resources (which worked perfectly out-of-the-box with LiveView)

  • Now building a JS SPA (SolidJS) that needs to interact with the same backend via the RPC client

  • The LiveView implementation handled the token automatically, but I want to manage it manually in the SPA

What I’m trying to do

Recreate the same Magic Link flow in my SPA:

  1. User requests a magic link via email

  2. User clicks the link and is authenticated

  3. The app receives and stores the authentication token for subsequent API calls

Current status

:white_check_mark: Successfully requesting the magic link using AshAuthentication’s request_magic_link action
:white_check_mark: Successfully calling the sign-in-with-magic-link action
:cross_mark: Cannot retrieve the authentication token after sign-in to store it client-side

The problem

From what I can tell, the token appears to be returned via metadata in the response, but the RPC client doesn’t seem to expose this metadata (or I’m not accessing it correctly).

Question

  1. How do I access response metadata (specifically the auth token) from AshAuthentication’s magic link sign-in action through the RPC client?

  2. Is there a different pattern I should be following when using AshAuthentication with a JS SPA instead of LiveView?

Any guidance on properly handling AshAuthentication tokens in a decoupled frontend would be greatly appreciated!

Showing Posts 1 to 2

zachdaniel

zachdaniel

Creator of Ash

Ah…right. I think the RPC client may need to be updated to support displaying metadata in its results. You’ll need to open an issue for this :smiley:

bobfp

bobfp OP

No worries, will do.
For anyone else that has a similar issue, I found a workaround by getting the token in a calculation:

defmodule FastricaServer.Accounts.User.Calculations.CurrentToken do
  @moduledoc """
  Calculation that retrieves the current authentication token for a user.

  This queries the Token resource to find the most recent valid token
  for the user, which is set during authentication via the sign_in_with_magic_link action.
  """
  use Ash.Resource.Calculation

  @impl true
  def calculate(records, _opts, _context) do
    # For each user record, generate a fresh JWT token
    Enum.map(records, fn user ->
      case AshAuthentication.Jwt.token_for_user(user, %{
        "purpose" => "user"
      }) do
        {:ok, jwt_token, _claims} -> jwt_token
        _ -> nil
      end
    end)
  end

  @impl true
  def load(_query, _opts, _context) do
    # No additional data needs to be loaded
    []
  end
end
— All posts loaded —

Where Next? Top

Trending in Questions Top

stjefim
Hello! Suppose you are building workflow (order / task / payment) processing system with the following requirements: Each workflow con...
New
water
I’m aware of 2 such projects, are there others? git: GitHub - team-alembic/realworld: A fullstack Phoenix LiveView application with back...
New
itzmidinesh
Hi all, I’m working on a Phoenix project where I need to make external HTTP requests and I’m trying to choose between Req and HTTPoison....
New
peck
Hi everyone. My team and I have been working on a fairly modest app based around video streaming and chat, but we’ve landed a customer t...
New
leoschweizer
Hi, we run different LLM models across a cluster, with each node loading a configurable subset. Model-specific queues let nodes consume ...
New
csmr
Hi all, I’m new here and would like to hear peoples views on my Elixir/Phoenix based game-engine! :smiley: Mutonex gamedesign was finish...
New
Stef-Verniers
Hello I’ve been coding in Elixir for almost two years now because of my current job where we implemented Elixir in our application. But ...
New

Other Trending Topics Top

dominicletz
Hey there, I haven’t seen a list of useful Elixir specific skills for the popular AI tools yet so I’m starting one here with my first. ...
New
raa-ziq
Hi everyone :waving_hand: I wanted to share something I’ve been building — NowBlind, a random chat app designed to help people discover ...
New
mudasobwa
I fully migrated to my own harness from Anthropic/Gemini and I think it’s time to share it. Welcome DSH, the DeepSeek Harness, fully writ...
New
KristerV
Hey. Is there anyone here who creates agents in their apps? Not talking about using agents, but creating them. I’m finding it pretty diff...
New
OndrejValenta
(I just needed to vent somewhere and LinkedIn is full of hope, or hype, I’m not sure which exactly) AI dream has many faces, but general...
New
webofbits
With AI doing more of the implementation work, I’ve been wondering how much coding I should deliberately keep doing myself. My main conc...
#ai
New

We're in Beta

About us Mission Statement

Options

Thread Display Mode




Thread Preview

Skip Thread Previews