Redirect to last page after login

[moshfeu]

Currently if a user try to access back office while they are not logged in, they redirected to the home page.

The expected result:

Redirect to login and remember the page they redirected from. After successful login, they should be redirected to this page

[nikhils4]

Hi @moshfeu,

I am not sure if this approach would be feasible or not, but once we get the Unauthorised response from the server, before redirecting can't we store the URL of the current page in Local Storage and once the user has successfully logged in, we can check for the existence of that particular value in Local Storage if that's available we can redirect the user to that page else we can redirect to the home page.

Let me know your thoughts on this.

[moshfeu]

Hi @nikhils4!
I believe it can be done that way but it might cause issues. For instance, if the user closes the browser before the login completed and they redirected back to our site. This way, next time the user comes to the website, we have the local storage value and we'll try to redirect them to the back office.

I'd suggest to use the state param of auth0. We're already using it, take a look the auth module:

find-a-mentor/src/utils/auth.js

Lines 25 to 27 in a1ad19a

	appState: {
	origin: isMentorIntent ? 'mentor' : 'user',
	},

[moshfeu]

@nikhils4 do you want to take this?

[nikhils4]

Sorry for not getting back on this, had a crazy last week and would remain unavailable until next week, later I can pick this up, if that's okay.

[moshfeu]

No worries!
I'll keep it "help needed". If someone could take it before, you could pick another one.
Thanks!

[nikhils4]

Thanks a lot, for sure once available will pick this up :)

[migtomace]

Hi, I have forked the repo and have it running. I would like to work on this issue but would like clarification on the "back office". Is this a space for mentors?

[migtomace]

Actually, I see the issue.

[moshfeu]

Great :) Thank you

[migtomace]

@moshfeu Where is isMentorIntent being inputed into the login function? It's not called in the LoginNavigation. I would like to add a from parameter as well, but I'm not sure I can do that without messing up other code.

login = isMentorIntent => {
this.auth0.authorize({
appState: {
origin: isMentorIntent ? 'mentor' : 'user',
},
redirectUri: window.location.href
});
};

[migtomace]

Nevermind, I figured it out finally. Now I am dealing with the same issue logging out of the backend. It needs to be sent to the front end to logout or else it just keep logging back in.

[moshfeu]

Done by #830 👏