How to resolve: "The access token expired and a refresh token is not available."

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I have a NextJS app router as my frontend, and an express API backend. Everything is going smoothly, I can get an access token in my nextJS client and send that to my express API for route protection.

However I’m noticing that if I stay logged in long enough my nextJS client returns The access token expired and a refresh token is not available.. What should I look at to manage refreshing my accessToken? Is there a simple way to automate this? I’ve looked at this error in other threads/topics but aren’t able to sort out what I’m missing.

Below is where I’m getting my accessToken from the sdk and executing a request.

import { redirect } from 'next/navigation';

import {  getAccessToken } from '@auth0/nextjs-auth0';

const apiServerUrl = process.env.API_SERVER_URL;


export default async function HomePage() {

  const { accessToken } = await getAccessToken();

  const response = await fetch(`${apiServerUrl}/protected/accountId`, {
    headers: {
      'content-type': 'application/json',
      Authorization: `Bearer ${accessToken}`,
    },
  });

  const responseData = await response.json();
  const accountId = responseData.accountId;

  redirect(`/${accountId}`);

  return null; 
}

I do see getAccessTokenSilently is available in the react SDK, is that something I should switch to, or is there a way to do this with the nextjs sdk?

EDIT:

It looks like adding the following to my .env file automates fetching a new access token?

AUTH0_SCOPE='openid offline_access'

Am I right in assuming that I can be hands off of managing the refreshing of tokens with this? Here is my app/api/auth/[auth0]/route.js

import { handleAuth } from '@auth0/nextjs-auth0';

export const GET = handleAuth();
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did you find a solution for this? experiencing the same issue right now

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Hello @KevinM!

I found a good community article for you that should clear up on using refresh tokens.

I hope this helps!

Best,
Alex