Get Authorization Api Token

[tyf]

No problem, happy to help where I can!

@auth0-ikearg

My problem is that I am not using a backend for auth0. Everything is in my React application and when I want to get the token I get some errors in the request usually status 500. I already activated the cors in my application panel.

If you do not have a backend to handle Management API tokens, then you will be limited in terms of which scopes are able to be requested. The reason being that a a front-end application cannot securely store a token, credentials, etc. Please see our documentation on confidential and public applications.

Typically, you would use a backend to proxy requests like delete a user:

How can I enable users to change their email address from a SPA or native app?

Question: How can I enable users to change their email address from a SPA or native app? Answer: Public clients (like SPAs and native applications) are restricted from requesting tokens for the management API with the proper scopes for updating a user’s email. These types of applications are limited to a few specific scopes. Because of these limitations, email change requests from public clients must flow through a backend or proxy API. This could be a serverless function with the sole purpose…

You can find an example of what that might look like here.