I'm trying to implement Login Functionality to my app but whenever I do a FRESH Reload and try to redirect to my home page it enters an infinite loop, How could I go about resolving this?.
** Note **
I have refactored this in so many ways with and Without react state in place and many ways of redirecting but zero to no luck, It just loops infinitely in different ways. My current method doesn't generate an error in the console its just the logs of 'mounting' and 'redi' you will read in my code infinitely looping till my CPU dies. Code for reference
// Other Imports. lke axios, useEffect and components from bootstrap.
import { ReactSession } from 'react-client-session';
import { Redirect } from "react-router-dom";
const Login = () => {
const { handleSubmit, register } = useForm();
const BASE_URL = process.env.REACT_APP_BASE_URL
let [error, setError] = useState(false)
let [errorMessage, setErrorMessage] = useState('')
let [loginToken, setToken] = useState('')
const login = async (data, e ) => {
try { let loginData = {
email: data.email,
password: data.password,
}
let res = await axios.post(BASE_URL + '/users/admin/login', loginData)
if (res.status === 200) {
ReactSession.set('token', res.data.token)
// return <Redirect to="/admin/index" />
setToken(res.data.token)
}} catch (error) {
setError(error)
setErrorMessage("There's been a problem while you were loggin in")
}
}
useEffect(() => {
const token = ReactSession.get("token");
setToken(token)
console.log('mounting')
}, [loginToken])
if (loginToken){
console.log('redi')
return <Redirect to="/admin/meals" />
}
return (
// Login Form components.
A copy of my router for reference
// More Imports
import AdminLayout from "layouts/Admin.js";
import AuthLayout from "layouts/Auth.js";
ReactSession.setStoreType("localStorage");
const token = ReactSession.get("token");
ReactDOM.render(
<BrowserRouter>
<Switch>
<Route path="/auth" render={(props) => <AuthLayout {...props} />} />
<Route path="/admin" render={(props) =>
token
? <AdminLayout {...props} />
: <Redirect from="*" to="/auth/login" />
}
/>
{(token)
? <Redirect from="/" to="/admin/index" />
: <Redirect from="*" to="/auth/login" />
}
</Switch>
</BrowserRouter>,
document.getElementById("root")
);