Passing JWT in headers with axios

Question

I've created a small project with a node back-end and react front-end to fetch the data through REST calls. I used Axios library, but when I pass the headers with it I keep getting an error saying:

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 401 (Unauthorized).

I found out two methods and both did not work. They are:

export const getUsersDetails=()=>{
  console.log('calling');
  return (dispatch) => {
    return axios.get('http://localhost:3030/users',{headers: { "Authorization": localStorage.getItem('jwtToken') }}).then((data)=>{
                 console.log('data comming',data);
                dispatch(getUsersData(data));
            }).catch((error)=>{
              console.log('error comming',error);
                dispatch(errorgetUsersData(error));
            });
        };
}

and

axios.defaults.headers.common['Authorization'] = localStorage.getItem('jwtToken');

But When I use postman I am getting the required data from the backend. Any particular reason why I keep getting this Unauthorized error?.

Answer 1

You need to concatenate 'Bearer ' before the token, like this:

axios.defaults.headers.common['Authorization'] = 
                                'Bearer ' + localStorage.getItem('jwtToken');