Accessing current session from the client side

[john-kuo]

hello @kinngh, came across another problem.

If I would like to access user's current session information similar to the shopify turorial here

its' line 20 in their app._index.jsx

The example is with remix
Where it gets the session info with this code snippet
const { session } = await authenticate.admin(request); const { shop } = session;

Is there something equivalent I can do on the client side with your project?

Thanks for your help

[kinngh]

1. You shouldn't be accessing session client side - it's not safe since you're exposing user's online session tokens and your app's static offline tokens.
2. To get tokens on the server, on a regular (non-proxy) route, you can just use res.locals.user_session that is exposed from verifyRequest to get user's online session tokens.

I'm guessing you want to make calls to Shopify to fetch orders / products / something else, and you're better off making an Express route and pulling in that way. Use clientProvider to make requests instead of having to worry about doing it manually. Also, since you're using this as a starter, please spend some time going through every middleware and util function that is exposed and documented with JSDocs so you can understand what you're building your entire app on^

[john-kuo]

got it. thanks