🔍 Problem Statement
When JWT tokens expire, API requests fail silently with 401 Unauthorized responses. Because there is currently no global handling for these responses, the frontend leaves the user in a broken UI state (e.g., empty dashboards, unresponsive action elements, or persistent loading states) without any feedback or session recovery.
🌟 Feature Description
We need to implement automatic and graceful handling of 401 responses on the frontend to improve the Auth UX. This can be achieved by adding a global Axios response interceptor that intercepts 401 Unauthorized errors from API requests.
🎯 Proposed Solution & Implementation Details
- Axios Interceptor: Add/update a global Axios response interceptor that catches any response with a status code of
401.
- Clear Client-Side Credentials: Upon detecting a
401, clear all relevant auth storage (e.g., JWT tokens, user profiles from localStorage/sessionStorage or cookies) to reset the client session state.
- Automatic Redirect: Trigger a clean, router-based redirect to
/login so the user can easily re-authenticate and restore their session.
🔍 Problem Statement
When JWT tokens expire, API requests fail silently with 401 Unauthorized responses. Because there is currently no global handling for these responses, the frontend leaves the user in a broken UI state (e.g., empty dashboards, unresponsive action elements, or persistent loading states) without any feedback or session recovery.
🌟 Feature Description
We need to implement automatic and graceful handling of 401 responses on the frontend to improve the Auth UX. This can be achieved by adding a global Axios response interceptor that intercepts 401 Unauthorized errors from API requests.
🎯 Proposed Solution & Implementation Details
401.401, clear all relevant auth storage (e.g., JWT tokens, user profiles fromlocalStorage/sessionStorageor cookies) to reset the client session state./loginso the user can easily re-authenticate and restore their session.