How to get accesss token in react-native

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I am going mad and would like to get some help from someone.

I have even now tried with the sample app but am guetting the same result.

In a nutshell: When calling authorize in my react-native app, I never get a token back

This is the login implementation, where I just added a few more debug lines

const onLogin = async () => {
  try {
    console.log("Starting authorization...");
    await authorize({ scope: "openid profile email offline_access", audience: "https://localhost/api" });
    console.log("Authorization completed.");
    let credentials = await getCredentials();
    setToken(credentials.accessToken);
    console.log('AccessToken: ' + credentials.accessToken);
  } catch (e) {
    console.log("Error:", e);
  }
};

When running the app, here is what happens, in that order

  • console prints Starting authorization…
  • I am getting a login screen for my application, where I enter my credentials
  • console prints Navigated to https:///u/login?state=hKFo2SBhX0lObTEzSFpjSUhCamN3Y0Jha2MtXzJFSVZGQVh4TqFur3VuaXZlcnNhbC1sb2dpbqN0aWTZIFZOeEp5TVBzdXJWd2JSMmphSG9HaEhzU2Q4Z29NYWVDo2NpZNkgdXprZU9Ia1ZibDVmSkZuY1ZablRQMnM1d2I3eVhiY3Y
  • logs in auth0 show me Successful login
  • logs in auth0 show me Authorization Code for Access Token
  • with this I can now look at the user object, that is populated, the app tells me I am logged in and shows me my email
  • from here on, nothing happens. no token ever gets printed

Environment details:

  • node v22.21.1
  • npx version 10.9.4
  • package.json is left as is, so I am on “react-native-auth0”: “^5.0.0-beta.1”, but I also tried with 5.3.1 (which is what my actual app is running on)
  • running inside a devcontainer

This is probably some stupid mistake, but I dont understand whats happening
Do I need to implement my own logic for getting from authorization token to jwt token?

— edit:1
Mayb I should add that the authentication is successful with the same settings in my API client Bruno. So I think its not a problem with my auth0 app setup

— edit: 2
Okay so it seems when building the android app, it works
So am I just stupid and I can not use auth0 with the browser?

— edit: 3
Okay I guess I answered my own question, we can delete this or keep it here for the hall of shame:
There is react-native and react packages. To use an app in the web and on phones, I guess one has to implement both

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Hi @auth040

Welcome to the Auth0 Community!

Thanks for providing further updates on the matter and that you have found the solution yourself!

If you need further assistance by any chance or have any other questions, feel free to leave a reply or post again! I will be marking this reply as a solution so that the topic will be closed!

Kind Regards,
Nik