Auto Logout

Automatically logging out your user after a set period of inactivity on your app (they dont move the mouse or press any key on the keyboard for a while)

Configuring auto logout policy

Important to understand: This is a policy that is enforced on the identity server. Not in the application code!

In OIDC provider, it is usually referred to as Idle Session Lifetime, these values define how long an inactive session should be kept in the records of the server.

Guide on how to configure it:

• Keycloak

• Auth0

If your OIDC provider issues a Refresh Token and if this refresh token is a JWT you don't need to configure anything at the app level. Otherwise you need to explicitly set the idleSessionLifetimeInSeconds so it matches with how you have configured your server.

Vanilla API

import { createOidc } from "oidc-spa";

const oidc = await createOidc({
  // ...
  // ‼️ WARNING ‼️ Read carfully what's above.
  // Use idleSessionLifetimeInSeconds if and only if you are using an auth server
  // that do not let you configure this policy! (e.g. if you're using Keycloak don't use this param) 
  idleSessionLifetimeInSeconds: 300 // 5 minutes
    
  //autoLogoutParams: { redirectTo: "current page" } // Default
  //autoLogoutParams: { redirectTo: "home" }
  //autoLogoutParams: { redirectTo: "specific url", url: "/a-page" }
});

React API

Displaying a countdown timer before auto logout

The demo app with a short SSO Session Idle

Vanilla API

const { unsubscribeFromAutoLogoutCountdown } = oidc.subscribeToAutoLogoutCountdown(
  ({ secondsLeft }) => {
    if( secondsLeft === undefined ){
      console.log("Countdown reset, the user moved");
      return;
    }
    if( secondsLeft > 60 ){
      return;
    }
    console.log(`${secondsLeft} before auto logout`)
  }
);

React API