I would like to verify the user who wants to access the admin panel of my Shopify app after the app is already installed in the shop. Shopify delivers a session token as a parameter, if the user wants to access the admin panel. As far as my understanding goes, the session token is exactly for that, …

I have the same issue. I can see some documentation around it. https://shopify.dev/tutorials/authenticate-your-app-using-session-tokens#verify-the-signature But it is difficult to comprehend it. Can someone help?

How does your application architecture look like? Do you work with a backend?

Hi ddaine, a bit more context about your embedded app would be useful. I use t the getSessionToken function from the app-bridge-utils to obtain session tokens. To validate the token I send it to the backend. You could decode the jwt token on the client-side using libraries like jwt-decode . If you…

Hello and thanks for your reply, Cartbear. My intentions was to reply to akcps, b/c I was able to solve the problem with a little bit of headache.

I think this piece of code could help someone: verifyTokenSignature(token: JsonWebtoken, originalToken: string): boolean { const { exp, nbf, iss, dest, aud, sub } = token; console.log(originalToken); if (exp <= Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000)) { throw new Error('Token expiration ti…

Embedded App - how to decode and use the session token?

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ddaine April 1, 2021, 12:11pm 2

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