I am have followed this blog to setup guardian authentication for my api using JWT. However, I am running into the following issues: I need to sign in twice before my authorization works The sign out isn’t working. Even after signing out I can still access the restricted routes. mix.exs: {:phoe…

Here’s the guide for custom controllers: https://github.com/danschultzer/pow/blob/master/guides/CUSTOM_CONTROLLERS.md You would use the plug methods as shown in the guide, and depending on how your API works, set up a custom authorization plug rather than using the default session plug: GitHub - po…

Yeah that is actually expected because since because JWT is typically meant to be stateless, it doesn’t allow graceful revokation of tokens (i.e. logout). So many (including me) would argue that JWT is not a good fit for authentication (but it can be good for stateless authorization between semi-ind…

[image] venomnert: The sign out isn’t working. Even after signing out I can still access the restricted routes. Yup. I went from coherence to guardian to coherence to pow. The reason for me to abandon guardian was probably @ axelson ’s previous post. Or whoever posted that jwt article. My web…

Thank you for suggesting pow, I am currently checking it out. More importantly thanks for suggesting the article, which explains the why use session for user session management.

Also @axelson or @mythicalprogrammer , do you have any experiencing using pow with react? I am trying to serve a react registration form rather than using the form that is provided with pow, but i’m not sure how to accomplish it.

You can customize the templates in Pow: GitHub - pow-auth/pow: Robust, modular, and extendable user authentication system · GitHub

Thanks for the suggestion it helped me out, but is there any way for me to customize pow controllers? For example, I want POST /registration to accept json rather than html.

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mythicalprogrammer April 14, 2019, 12:09am 7

I’ve never done React. So I cannot help you on that.