Devise Token Auth VS RazorLight

I have a React single page application using React Router that hooks into a Rails 5 API. The Rails application uses devise_token_auth for authentication. I've successfully created an authentication process that stores the user state in a Redux store on the client side.

Did you send an authorization header with your api call? The error is pretty clear — the request is unauthorized. Devise is expecting session cookies, but your api should use tokens. https://github.com/lynndylanhurley/devise_token_auth

I mentioned Identity in my first comment. I've never found it as simple as Devise though - especially in an API only setting.

With Devise there's a third-party Gem you can use called devise_token_auth which deals with everything automatically.

https://github.com/lynndylanhurley/devise_token_auth

redux-token-auth is a great library. What it mainly does is it provides a plug and play auth implementation functionality for ruby on rails based APIs which implement popular devise_token_auth for auth handling.

have you looked at https://github.com/waiting-for-dev/devise-jwt or https://github.com/lynndylanhurley/devise_token_auth

I'd prefer to have a standalone rails API and a react client separately, but that's not mandatory. I discovered a gem called devise_token_auth and it didn't seem to have refresh tokens but it refreshed the tokens on every request anyway so I was pretty happy with it.

As a side note, also check out devise_token_auth here

Yes, I have used Razor pages in non-website applications before where I needed to load the cshtml templates from a different source. I have written Line of Business apps (think WinForms or WPF) where the reporting spits out HTML with tables and charts. There are a number of similar projects to yours out there which I have used in the past such as RazorLight or RazorMachine.

Your mileage may vary but I've had good luck with the RazorLight library for generating HTML emails from a template with data merged in. Under the hood, it uses the ASP.NET Razor engine for applying a model to a template.

We use https://github.com/toddams/RazorLight in combination with serverless functions.

you could use a razor based engine to generate html based on a view model (your data). take a look at: https://github.com/toddams/RazorLight i use it to generate html emails

Rails has a templating system for generating emails (standard HTML/ERB files). If you're running an ASP.NET Web API (not MVC) the best way of doing that I've found is via Razorlight which you have to set up manually - https://github.com/toddams/RazorLight

With Rails the standard is pretty much Devise or Omniauth (or both) - does everything for you. I've never found anything for ASP like Devise which gives you an entire login system with all the required views/migrations in a couple commands.

I use RazorLight: https://github.com/toddams/RazorLight

Razor Light