Spotify credentials expire if page not refreshed

[IkeHunter]

Problem

After about an hour of listening to music, the spotify credentials will expire, and will only refresh if the user refreshes the page.

Possible solutions

• Set a timer for less than 1h to auto refresh the token
• When spotify web player throws an unauthorized error, make a request to refresh the token
• Use the preexisting api route defined in Network.sendGetSpotifyToken, this will always return an updated token

Task

• Automatically refresh the spotify credentials when/before the token expires

Note: You will need to run the project in network mode, I recommend setting the servers like this: https://github.com/ufosc/Jukebox-Server/blob/main/docs/Network-Mode.md, then running npm run network in the terminal. Alternatively, you can run docker-compose -f docker-compose.network.yml up, but this makes logs harder to read in the terminal.

[IkeHunter]

Strategy used: every 5 minutes the client will check spotify credentials, if they expire in less than 5 minutes the client requests refreshed credentials from the server. This also uses force-refreshing on the backend to refresh the tokens even if they are not expired.