Documentation: Does naming of authkitLoader mean it is just for loaders?

[MattyBalaam]

I am maybe just misdirected by the naming here - Can you call authkitLoader inside a remix action as well? We need to get tokens to call endpoints in our actions and I’m not 100% sure that you can use it in an action.

[PaulAsjes]

Hey there, although authkitLoader isn't technically supposed to be used in Remix actions, there is a workaround to get it doing what you want.

I'm going to leave this issue open as a reminder to add a Remix specific method for getting the user data, but in the meanwhile the following should work:

export async function action({ request }: ActionFunctionArgs) {
  const resp = await authkitLoader({
    request,
    params: {},
    context: {},
  });

  const { accessToken } = await resp.json();

  console.log('action:', accessToken);

  // make follow up API calls with the access token  
}

The above works because our loader doesn't require either params or context to function, just the request.