capacitor-community / capacitor-community/generic-oauth2
Silently refresh token in pwa
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- Dominant language
- Java
- Stars
- 281
- Forks
- 129
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
This is the task for implementing the refresh feature for PWA/Web. I sum up the relevant information from @dennisameling below.
Implicit flow (for now, see this article by Auth0 for details as to why it's still not considered safe to store a refresh token from the implicit flow in the browser). See #59
If we were to use the implicit flow for refreshing tokens, it would involve creating an iFrame to refresh the token without user interaction. The angular-oauth2-oidc library also uses iFrames for refreshing tokens, so we could take inspiration from that. See #60
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the PWA/Web token flow described here and the related context in issues #59 and #60. Compare the proposed implicit-flow iframe approach with angular-oauth2-oidc; done means tokens refresh silently without user interaction while preserving the stated browser security constraints.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- angular, java
- Domain
- authentication, web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100