reset user login session in angularjs

Question

I store user auth info and token in a cookie locally for my angular/typescript SPA. Cookie expires after a certain time I have set. How do I reset expiration while user's activity? (session on the server is reset on users requests)

I mean what would be the best way, so I don't code some stupid stuff.

Thank you

Answer 1

I assume you do your authentication and generation of the cookie on the server and your angular side authentication is located in a service.

One way to achieve what you are looking for is to create a method in your client side service to send a request to a known end point of the server which would refresh the cookie. This server endpoint will refresh the cookie and will return a HTTP 200 code.

Once you have this code in place, you can call it when the user interact with the application (ex navigation across views via $locationChangeStart, $routeChangeStart etc).