How to wait for a http request to finish in Angular?

Question

I\'ve been building a SPA with Angular 4 on the front end and ASP.NET Core 2 on the Backend. Basically, I\'m trying to automatically renew an user login, given a valid token. Wh

Answer 1

You can use promises with async/await

async getUser() {
    if (this.storage.token == null || this.storage.token == '') {
        return;
    }

    const t = await this.net.get(`Authentication/GetUser`).toPromise();

    this.storage.token = t.token;
    this.storage.user = t.user;

    console.log(this.storage.user);
}

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• Promises
• async
• await
• ES8 async/await
• async/await tutorial
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