Possible to use update from useSession on unauthenticated users?

[william-will-angi]

Is there a way to get the update function returned by useSession to run for unauthenticated users? I'm trying to use some code similar to this, but it doesn't fetch the /api/auth/session endpoint a second time the way I would expect.

import {useEffect} from 'react';
import {useSession} from 'next-auth/react';

const useMyHook = () => {
  const session = useSession()
  useEffect(()=>{
    if (session.status === 'unauthenticated') {
      session.update();
    }
  }, [session.status])
}

I also tried the following, more involved code, but this also did not update the internal session stored by next-auth client-side.

import {useEffect} from 'react';
import {useSession, getSession} from 'next-auth/react';

const manualSessionUpdate = async (updateFn) => {
  const newSession = await getSession()
  updateFn(newSession)
}

const useMyHook = () => {
  const session = useSession()
  useEffect(()=>{
    if (session.status === 'unauthenticated') {
      manualSessionUpdate(session.update);
    }
  }, [session.status])
}

The use case is being able to refresh the user's authentication status without requiring a page reload. For example, if you logged in with another window/tab.

[lmac-1]

The use case is being able to refresh the user's authentication status without requiring a page reload. For example, if you logged in with another window/tab.

I am wanting to implement the same behaviour. @william-will-angi did you ever figure it out? I can't seem to find a way to get the user's authentication status without refreshing the page when you logged in another tab.

[william-will-angi]

@lmac-1 we ended up using the library patch-package to modify this line to exclude the check for empty sessions:

next-auth/packages/next-auth/src/react/index.tsx

Line 472 in 1fac7d3

if (loading || !session) return

I am not certain what side effects this might have although, fwiw, we have not noticed any major regressions since rolling that out