Persisting Login Session in Local Development

[AudreyFelicio]

Hello, can I confirm that CATcher currently does not remember login sessions? I've tested this on localhost, electron window, and production website. I'm taking the production website here as an example. If I open the CATcher website, log in, and close the website, and reopen again, it seems that I'm automatically logged out and will need to log in again. The same happens also in the electron window and localhost. Also if I open a new tab of CATcher while there's an existing tab of logged in CATCher, I will have to login again in the new tab.

When it comes to local development, I find this a bit troublesome, since if I make changes to the codebase (especially to the HTML code which governs the UI), angular will automatically trigger a hot-reload. This will always cause the app to refresh and I'm always kicked out to the start-up page and I have to re-login again just to see the changes I've made. Is there any way to prevent having to re-login on every reload?

Thanks in advance! 😄

[damithc]

@AudreyFelicio I converted your issue into a discussion topic, mostly to test the new 'Discussions' feature of GitHub.

[anubh-v]

Thanks for raising the issue @AudreyFelicio. It is not possible to persist the login session, currently.

This is an inconvenience, but I don't think we can implement this feature easily, as we would need another server-side process to store the user's access token when they are not using CATcher.