Hello! I’m using Supabase in my React Native app. We’re struggling with the async storage issue outlined here https://github.com/supabase/gotrue-js/issues/143#issuecomment-970288835 – specifically, we need a good way to distinguish whether supabase.auth.user() is null because there is no session, or if it is null because we are waiting for the token to refresh. This is a fairly consistent problem whenever the token expires while the app is in background – on app launch, we have indeterminate behavior as to whether the user is null, because it loads async from AsyncStorage. The only options I have been able to think of are to introduce a delay on app launch for any network dependent logic, or to modify gotrue-js to expose some sort of “is refreshing” state. I know that I can subscribe to the listener when the Auth State changes on refresh, but for cases where it’s determining logged in/logged out behavior, I would rather not flash the login screen if possible. Curious if there are any other suggestions – thanks!

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as one quick follow up – I saw the supabase/ui solution here: https://github.com/supabase/ui/pull/269 though we aren't using that library for our state management. I think the underlying issue described is still a good one, and I was curious if there are any follow-ups happening there.

I have created a PR to add an async function to solve a similiar problem (session null on page load while token refreshing): https://github.com/supabase/gotrue-js/pull/265

abaum (2022-04-23)

But I have not received any feedback so far.

that would be a big help – will follow along on that PR as well.