amplify-js: No current user error

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JavaScript Framework

React Native

Amplify APIs

Authentication

Amplify Categories

auth

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Describe the bug

Sometimes for some reason we get an “No current user” error.

Expected behavior

No error

Reproduction steps

During token update

Code Snippet

const data = (await Auth.currentSession()).getIdToken();
const token = data.getJwtToken();

Log output

// Put your logs below this line

aws-exports.js

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Manual configuration

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Additional configuration

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Mobile Device

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Mobile Operating System

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Mobile Browser

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Additional information and screenshots

Good day!

Our users get an error from time to time when trying to update a token. We update the token like this:

const data = (await Auth.currentSession()).getIdToken(); … = data.getJwtToken();

Basically, there are no problems with this, but sometimes for some reason we get an “No current user” error.

Please tell me how can I fix this behavior?

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 3 years ago
Reactions: 4
Comments: 27 (11 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Hi @RomanBob123 wave are you still experiencing this issue? If so, have you been able to capture what the Amplify debug logs and/or network requests might’ve looked like?

Yea. We still have it sometimes.

RomanBob123 on Oct 20, 2021

@vdhpieter Looks like you’re trying to use the Auth library in a Next application and on the server side. In your scenario, I think you should be using withSSRContext to initialize an Auth instance using the context from the request similar to this:

export const getServerSideProps = async ({ req }) => {
  const { Auth } = withSSRContext({ req });

  let user;

  try {
    user = await Auth.currentAuthenticatedUser();

    return {
      props: {
        user: JSON.stringify(user),
        error: null,
      },
    };
  } catch (error) {
    return {
      props: {
        user: null,
        error: JSON.stringify(error),
      },
    };
  }
};

Note: I’m using a try/catch in my server code when checking for user info because if the “No current user” error is thrown from the server, it will page will prevent the page from loading.

For more information: https://docs.amplify.aws/lib/ssr/q/platform/js/#withssrcontext

Also worth noting - Amplify must load on the client at least once in order to detect and store in either local storage or cookie whether a user is authenticated or not. Otherwise, you’re probably going to get the “No current user” error.

See this comment: https://github.com/aws-amplify/amplify-js/issues/8011#issuecomment-839191759 and the one right after offer some more insight on how/when to handle authentication either through _app.js or separate pages.

chrisbonifacio on Feb 17, 2022

@vdhpieter sorry, I should’ve mentioned you can also keep the @aws-amplify/ui-react package, that’s been moved to its own repository separate from our core js libraries. Also, if you would prefer to keep the scoped packages that’s okay, just need to make sure that they’re all up to date and compatible so they’re not producing duplicate instances.

Are you also trying to get a user’s id/access token similarly to the code snippet shared in this issue’s description? Or are you running into it in a different context?

const data = (await Auth.currentSession()).getIdToken();
const token = data.getJwtToken();

If you are, can you check your local storage to make sure that the type of token you’re trying to get is being stored there after authentication?

chrisbonifacio on Feb 3, 2022

Meet this issue as well

HiramYong on Oct 19, 2021